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Fanny (French). Marcel Pagnol on unmarried pregnancy, paternal love and the power of money and family. An old one (1937), presumably imported for admirers of the late Raimu. Slow, wordy, subtly complacent, yet often deeply perceptive and moving...
Outstand in the film is the fine performance of Raimu, who, as the well-digger, is making his last screen appearance in this production. Raimu lends a fine mixture of broad humor and human dignity to the performance of his role. He is equally effective when pleading with the youth's parents for a righting of the wrong done his daughter or when describing the ample charms of his late wife. This blend of the humorous with the elements of human tragedy is characteristic of this fine film which retains both humor and dignity in its treatment of a human...
...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...