A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a lecherous aristocrat, his starry-eyed nephew, and an old ham actor.

Louis Jouvet
as Monchablon

Bourvil
as Urbain de la Tour-Mirande

Saturnin Fabre
as Le marquis

Danièle Delorme
as Miquette

Mireille Perrey
as Madame veuve Hermine Grandier

Pauline Carton
as Perrine

Jeanne Fusier-Gir
as Mademoiselle Poche

Madeleine Suffel
as Noémie

Maurice Schutz
as Panouillard

Pierre Olaf
as Le jeune premier