Girls in Distress
A Feature film of
Produced by
Production year1939
French release25/08/1939
Runtime
1h 30m
Synopsis
Jacqueline is sixteen. Her parents are kept very busy by their mutual careers (Dad is a renowned attorney and Mum is a doctor running her own clinic). When they become aware that they neglect their daughter they send her to a boarding school for girls, impeccably run by Mme Vuillard. There Jacqueline meets her new friends who are, nearly all, the children of divorced parents.They all found a league against divorce they name Licodipa.When it is the turn of Jacqueline's parents to split up, and when Margot, Jacqueline's best friend, attempts to kill herself, distress sets in among the girls of the institution...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (39)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Globe Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Editions René Château
- French distribution : Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France
Full credits (11)
- Screenwriter : Christina Winsloe
- Dialogue Writers : Jean Bernard-Luc, Tristan Bernard
- Director of Photography : Michel Kelber
- Music Composer : Ralph Erwin
- Assistant directors : Jacqueline Audry, André Michel
- Editor : Louisette Hautecoeur
- Sound Recordist : Robert Teisseire
- Author of original work : Peter Quinn
- Production managers : Arnold Misrach, Georg C. Horsetzky
- Production Designers : André Andrejew, Jacques Manuel
- Still Photographer : Roger Forster
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1939
- French release : 25/08/1939
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 985
- Visa issue date : 01/10/1940
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
