Word: feydeau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Look After Lulu (adapted by Noel Coward from Georges Feydeau's Occupe toi d'Amélie) is a game of musical chairs played with beds. Philippe (George Baker), who must leave Paris on regimental maneuvers, asks his pal Marcel (Roddy McDowall) to look after his mistress Lulu ("Take her to the zoo"). But before Lulu (Tammy Grimes) can say "zoo, la la," she wakes up in bed with her chaperon. She promptly dives under it to make room for Marcel's own mistress, a mock-seductive duchess (Polly Rowles) with the voice and manner...
Hotel Paradiso, written 71 years ago by the once-famous and prolific Georges Feydeau with the collaboration of Maurice Desvallieres, is exceedingly standard and exceedingly French French farce. This means sex first, but not in the long run foremost. In such goings-on, slapstick and speed become a good deal more important than spice. The bed is only a prop; the actual objective is bedlam...