Good Luck (1935 film)

Good Luck (French: Bonne chance!) is a 1935 French romantic comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and Fernand Rivers and starring Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac and Pauline Carton.^[1] In it a woman becomes convinced a man she has met is a good luck charm after she wins a lottery.

Good Luck
Directed by	Sacha Guitry Fernand Rivers
Written by	Sacha Guitry
Produced by	Maurice Lehmann Fernand Rivers
Starring	Sacha Guitry Jacqueline Delubac Pauline Carton
Cinematography	Jean Bachelet
Edited by	Pierre Schwab
Music by	Vincent Scotto
Production companies	Productions Maurice Lehmann Les Films Fernand Rivers
Distributed by	Les Grandes Exclusivités Européennes
Release date	20 September 1935 (1935-09-20)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

It was shot at the Billancourt Studios and on location in Paris and Monaco. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys.

In 1940 it was remade as an American film Lucky Partners starring Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers.

Cast

• Sacha Guitry as Claude
• Jacqueline Delubac as Marie
• Pauline Carton as La mère de Marie
• Paul Dullac as Le maire de Marie
• Montel as Un vieux monsieur qui passe
• André Numès Fils as Prosper
• Rivers Cadet as Le greffier
• Robert Darthez as Gastion Lepeltier
• Andrée Guize as Henriette Lepeltier
• Lucienne Givry as L'élégante
• Simone Sandre as L'épicière
• Madeleine Suffel as La gantière
• Antoine as Antoine, le coiffeur
• Louis Baldy as L'employé de banque
• Renée Dennsy as Une radeuse
• Gustave Huberdeau
• Régine Paris
• Robert Seller as Le maître d'hôtel
• Louis Vonelly as Le marchand de tableaux

Critical reception

Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a good review, describing it as "a charming silly film in the Clair genre, a lyrical absurdity". Greene notes that it is only cinema and music that can produce such uplifting transience and joy.^[2]