Word: raimu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Raimu (real name: Jules Auguste Muraire), 63, great French stage and cinema comedian (The Baker's Wife, The Well-Digger's Daughter); of a heart attack; in Neuilly, France...
...welldigger (Raimu) is a widower trying to raise six daughters. The eldest girl (Josette Day), bored by the fumbling marriage proposals of her father's well-digging assistant (Fernandel), has a brief romance with a handsome air-corps" officer (George Grey). When her airman goes off to war and is reported missing, unmarried Josette disgraces her respectable father by giving birth...
French movies, like U.S. movies, have their own highly stylized view of life. But the French, with their sharper attention to the way human beings normally behave, often manage to make their film conventions look lifelike. The real pleasure in this picture comes from watching Actor Raimu's very human vacillation between shame and pride in his bastard grandson...
...officer, was far more interested in the audience than in the play and turned constantly to face them. This kind of acting is typically high-schoolish. Bright spot in the evening was Aesop, of fable fame, who was played with some of the flavor of the great French comedian Raimu. Except for him the production was mediocre and seemed more a recitation that a serious attempt to capitalize on the analogies of the Cassandra story to the present day. Music for the performance was ably provided by a harpist but the meant-to-be-moving "Hymn to Apollo" fell miserably...
...plot pivots around the marital woes of a village baker whose wife seeks romance in elopement, and finally finds it in the arms of her forgiving husband. Raimu as the cuckooed villager strikes an unusually happy balance between humor and earnestness, burlesque and drama...