
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.
Release Date: 1968-12-28
Comedy
TV Movie
Casts

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