Holiday for Henrietta

Holiday for Henrietta (French: La fête à Henriette) is a 1952 French comedy film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Dany Robin, Michel Auclair, and Hildegard Knef. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios and on location around Paris including at the Gaumont-Palace cinema. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean d'Eaubonne. Holiday for Henrietta was remade in English as the 1964 film Paris When It Sizzles, starring William Holden and Audrey Hepburn, which also featured d'Eaubonne as art director.

Holiday for Henrietta
Directed by	Julien Duvivier
Written by	Julien Duvivier Henri Jeanson
Produced by	José Bosch Georges Lourau Arys Nissotti Pierre O'Connell
Starring	Dany Robin Michel Auclair Hildegard Knef
Cinematography	Roger Hubert
Edited by	Marthe Poncin
Music by	Georges Auric
Production companies	Filmsonor Regina Films
Distributed by	Cinédis
Release date	17 December 1952 (1952-12-17)
Running time	118 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Synopsis

While urgently trying to develop a screenplay for a new film, two screenwriters, the downbeat Crémieux and the optimist Seignier, create contradictory storylines as they argue, and as each takes turns in taking the narrative forward, they force the lead characters Henriette and Maurice into weird situations. The film switches back and forth between the writers at home and the film as it develops according to their ideas.

Cast

• Dany Robin as Henriette
• Michel Auclair as Marcel
• Hildegard Knef as Rita Solar
• Louis Seigner as script writer
• Micheline Francey as Nicole, script girl
• Henri Crémieux as script writer
• Michel Roux as Robert
• Daniel Ivernel as detective
• Odette Laure as Valentine
• Jeannette Batti as Gisèle
• Liliane Maigné as the cigarette girl
• Geneviève Morel as The Concierge

Bibliography

• Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940–1958. Indiana University Press, 2015.

External links

• Holiday for Henrietta at IMDb