The Smiling Madame Beudet

Name: The Smiling Madame Beudet
Uploaded: 2025-06-02T07:27:52Z
Duration: 1 min 43 s
Description: In this clip from Germaine Dulac's The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923), Madame Beudet (played by Germaine Dermoz) daydreams of escape from her husband (Alexandre Arquillière) at the hands of a tennis player (athlete Raoul Paoli).

The Smiling Madame Beudet

In this clip from Germaine Dulac's The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923), Madame Beudet (played by Germaine Dermoz) daydreams of escape from her husband (Alexandre Arquillière) at the hands of a tennis player (athlete Raoul Paoli).

Produced by Corsilée Films, 1923, directed by Germaine Dulac

The Smiling Madame Beudet
Discover how Voltaire might present Candide and discuss the Age of Enlightenment
The Seashell and the Clergyman
Explore the life and inventions of George Eastman through a tour of the museum on his estate
Follow a director as he films a motion picture adaption of Eugène Ionesco's The New Tenant
Take a look at a video clip from Winsor McCay's “Gertie on Tour”
Watch Shakespeare's tragic protagonist Hamlet deliver a soliloquy in the second act of Hamlet
Why do movie theaters serve popcorn?
Examine how to direct a film adaption of Walter van Tilburg Clark's short story “The Portable Phonograph”