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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1644

An Ideal Woman

1929128 minFrance

Synopsis

Mercedes helps a Parisian businessman recover after an accident in Seville. Their romance takes her to Paris, where his former lover tries to corrupt the young woman and regain his affection.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: French.
This copy runs: 128:14
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: French. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Jean Durand · Public domain

Cast

Arlette Marchal

Charles Vanel

Alice Roberts

DirectorsJean Durand

Behind the scenes

The edition shown is Gaumont's 2017 restoration from two nitrate negatives. The reconstruction restores the French intertitles using surviving text and a transcription from the other negative.

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Availability checked on September 22, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Arlette Marchal — Unknown author Unknown author; J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs · Public domain
Charles Vanel — Studio Harcourt.; https://images.grandpalaisrmn.fr/ark:/36255/09-525777 · Public domain
Alice Roberts — Unknown photographer / Academy Museum / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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