La dama de Chez Maxim's (1923 film)
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La dama de Chez Maxim's (or La Dame de Chez Maxim's)[1] is a 1923 Italian silent comedy film directed by Amleto Palermi and starring Carmen Boni, Alfredo Martinelli and Pina Menichelli.[2] It is an adaptation of the 1899 play La Dame de chez Maxim by Georges Feydeau.[3]
- Carmen Boni
- Alfredo Martinelli
- Pina Menichelli
- Ugo Gracci
- Marcel Lévesque
- Arrigo Marchio
Production
The work is the first film adaptation of a Feydeau play by Palermi, released two years before his screen version of Occupe-toi d'Amélie (1925).[4] It is also, more generally, one of various adaptations of melodrama and vaudeville plays made by the Italian director.[5]
Reception
The film is considered by Charles Ford in his History of Modern Film (1966), to be his best screen adaptation of a theater play.[6] It was the second silent screen adaptation of the play,[7] and in his book about the playwright, Jacques Lorcey found the effort to convey Feydeau's humour without dialogue amusing.[8]
Various commentators noted Menichelli's comedic performance.[9][10][11]
