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.

• Pierre BadelDirector

• Michel SerraultM. Jourdain
• Rosy VarteMme Jourdain
• Daniel CeccaldiDorante
• Jean-Pierre DarrasLe maître de ballet
• Roger CarelLe maître de musique
• Henri VirlogeuxLe maître de philosophie
• Jacques LegrasLe maître-tailleur
• Michel CretonCovielle
• Georges AudoubertLe maître d'armes
• Annick BlancheteauLucile
• René BoulocLe premier laquais
• Xavier DeprazLe Grand Turc