Would-Be Gentleman
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.
Cast
Michel Serrault
as M. Jourdain
Rosy Varte
as Mme Jourdain
Daniel Ceccaldi
as Dorante
Jean-Pierre Darras
as Le maître de ballet
Roger Carel
as Le maître de musique
Henri Virlogeux
as Le maître de philosophie
Jacques Legras
as Le maître-tailleur
Michel Creton
as Covielle
Georges Audoubert
as Le maître d'armes
Annick Blancheteau
as Lucile
