La dama de Chez Maxim's (or La Dame de Chez Maxim's[1]) is a 1923 Italian silent comedy film directed by Amleto Palermi and starring Carmen Boni, Alfredo Martinelli and Pina Menichelli.[2] It is an adaptation of the 1899 play La Dame de chez Maxim by Georges Feydeau.[3]

Cast

Production

The work is the first film adaptation of a Feydeau play by Palermi, released two years before his screen version of Occupe-toi d'Amélie (1925).[4] It is also, more generally, one of various adaptations of melodrama and vaudeville plays made by the Italian director.[5]

Reception

The film is considered by Charles Ford in his History of Modern Film (1966), to be his best screen adaptation of a theater play.[6] It was the second silent screen adaptation of the play,[7] and in his book about the playwright, Jacques Lorcey found the effort to convey Feydeau's humour without dialogue amusing.[8]

Various commentators noted Menichelli's comedic performance.[9][10][11]

Preferences

  1. ^ LA DAME DE CHEZ MAXIM'S (in Italian). Retrieved 20 February 2025 – via www.cinematografo.it.
  2. ^ Courrier cinematographique: Organe hebdomadaire indépendent de la cinematographie des arts, sciences et industries qui s'y rattachent (in French). 1925.
  3. ^ Gidel, Henry (1991). Georges Feydeau (in French). Flammarion. ISBN 978-2-08-066280-4.
  4. ^ Feydeau, Georges; Gidel, Henry (16 March 2012). Occupe-toi d'Amélie (in French). Le Livre de Poche. ISBN 978-2-253-15880-6.
  5. ^ Jeanne, René; Ford, Charles (1966). Histoire illustrée du cinéma ...: Le cinéma muet, 1895-1930 (in French). Gérard et Cie.
  6. ^ Ford, Charles (1 January 1987). Histoire moderne du cinéma (in French). (Marabout) réédition numérique FeniXX. ISBN 978-2-7062-2559-8.
  7. ^ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
  8. ^ Lorcey, Jacques (2004). Georges Feydeau (in French). Séguier. ISBN 978-2-84049-415-7.
  9. ^ Jeanne, René; Ford, Charles (1969). Paris vu par le cinéma (in French). Hachette.
  10. ^ Ford, Charles (1 January 1987). Histoire moderne du cinéma (in French). (Marabout) réédition numérique FeniXX. ISBN 978-2-7062-2559-8.
  11. ^ Hebdo-film (in French). André de Reusse. 1925.

See also


Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_dama_de_Chez_Maxim%27s
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