The Pretty Miller Girl

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The Pretty Miller Girl

Directed by	Marcel Pagnol
Written by	Marcel Pagnol
Starring	Tino Rossi Jacqueline Pagnol Raoul Marco
Cinematography	Willy Faktorovitch
Edited by	Jeanne Rongier [fr]
Music by	Tony Aubin
Production company	Société du Film La Belle Meunière
Distributed by	Gaumont
Release date	23 November 1949 (1949-11-23)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

The Pretty Miller Girl (French: La Belle Meunière) is a 1949 French musical film directed by Marcel Pagnol and starring Tino Rossi, Jacqueline Pagnol and Raoul Marco. It is part of the tradition of operetta films. The title is a reference to Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin.

Synopsis

Composer Franz Schubert goes to the countryside to find inspiration.^[1]^[2]^[3] He meets a girl, Brigitte, near a windmill.^[1]^[2] However, the local lord wants her as his lover.^[2]^[3] Distraught, Schubert leaves and writes some new music to get over it.^[2]^[3]

The film was shot with Rouxcolor technology.^[4] The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani.

Cast

Tino Rossi as Franz Schubert
Jacqueline Pagnol as Brigitte
Raoul Marco as Maître Guillaume
Lilia Vetti [fr] as the Countess
Raphaël Patorni as Count Christian
Emma Lyonel [fr] as the Baroness
Suzanne Desprès as the lavender-girl
Roger Monteaux
Christian Bertola
Jean-Paul Coquelin
Pierrette Rossi
Gustave Hamilton
Edouard Hemme
Jules Dorpe

References

^ ^a ^b AlloCine
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d UniFrance Films
^ ^a ^b ^c La Belle Meunière, Premiere,
^ Brett Bowles, Marcel Pagnol, Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 4

v t e Marcel Pagnol
Drama	Topaze (1928) Marius (1929) Fanny (1931)
Prose	My Father's Glory (1957) My Mother's Castle (1957) Le secret du Masque de Fer (1965) The Water of the Hills (1963)
Films directed	Jofroi (1934) Angèle (1934) Merlusse (1935) César (1936) Topaze (1936) Harvest (1937) The Baker's Wife (1938) Heartbeat (1938) The Well-Digger's Daughter (1940) The Pretty Miller Girl (1949) Topaze (1951) Manon of the Spring (1952) Letters from My Windmill (1954)
Miscellaneous	Souvenirs d'enfance

Franz Schubert

Compositions

By genre	Chamber music Church music Orchestral works (Symphonies) Piano music (piano solo) Sonatas, duos and fantasies Songs and part-songs (song cycles) Stage works Arrangements Copies Doubtful and spurious
By year	1810 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26 '27 '28 undated
Publications	Deutsch catalogue opus/Deutsch number concordance 19th century complete edition New Schubert Edition

Media

Schubertiade
Das Dreimäderlhaus (1916 operetta)
Schubert at the Piano (1899 painting)
1928 International Columbia Graphophone Competition
Schubert's Dream of Spring (1931 film)
Gently My Songs Entreat (1933 film)
Serenade (1940 film)
The Great Awakening (1941 film)
It's Only Love (1947 film)
La Belle Meunière (1949 film)
Franz Schubert (1953 film)
Angeli senza paradiso (1970 film)

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