Holiday for Henrietta (1952)

Director
Julien Duvivier

Main cast
Dany Robin; Michel Auclair; Hildegard Knef; Michel Roux; Louis Seigner

Genres
Comedy

Description
Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dastardly fate in mind for her. Among the film's irresistible conceits is Hildegarde Neff as an oversexed circus bareback rider.


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