Charles Prince

Charles Prince is an inept butler, so he is fired. He goes and gets a job at a restaurant, where he discovers his former employer in a tryst with a young woman who's clearly prepared to be no better than she is, and snatches a love letter from the boss to the girl. He uses this to reinsert himself into his former home, where he drinks the master's wine, smokes the master's cigars, and insults the master's cook.

Shy Rigadin decides to visit some friends of the family, but they are called away and when out the servants play high society, dressing up and partying. Which is when Rigadin enters…

Rigadin pretending to be a doctor.

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An opera singer travelling with her company on a passenger ship encounters a mysterious young man who she falls in love with.

Rigadin's girlfriend is a Bonapartist and wishes Rigadin was more Napoleonic. He dreams that he is Napoleon, inspecting and decorating his troops, before leading them in the Battle of the Pyramids.

The story is about a lieutenant, nicknamed "the Rooster of the Regiment", a married man, who just can't help running after any woman passing around, and one of his friend, who always has "good ideas" to give him a hand to come out of "ubuesque" situations.

Rigadin, prohibited by his sweetheart's father from courting her, finally decides to work properly.

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It is one thing to open a beauty salon (which Edwige and her young lover Gaston have just done) but it is another to keep it on its feet.To best promote their speciality, fountain-of-youth treatments, Edwige decides to apply to the letter the old slogan "It pays to advertise" by posing as... Gaston's mother, a sixty-year-old woman, miraculously grown younger.

Rigadin and his rival use camera/projector systems to reach their objectives.

Charles Prince is married to Mistinguett, but she's too busy being a doctor to tend to her wifely duties, so he seeks entertainment elsewhere in this short from Pathe Freres.

Cochu, a simple soldier, is mistakenly believed to be a rich heir which causes many problems.

Rigadin masquerades as someone else and fools his wife.

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Marjolin, called for military duty, has cheated on his wife who found out and decided to get even by being a godmother to another soldier, a cook named Brichoux. Brichoux sells his place to Lambrisset who soon makes a pass at the woman. Marjolin's uncle, a colonel, arrives unexpectedly and congratulates his alleged nephew. But Mrs. Lambrisset, thinking that her husband did not get his leave, comes to Paris to visit her friend Mrs. Marjolin, and finds her husband there. The Colonel sweetens her temper.

Charles Prince is a gypsy street violinist, whose appreciative audience disappears as soon as he stops playing and passes the hat. He returns home to Gabrielle Lange with empty pockets to a dinner of stale bread and fetid tap water. But an engagement at a celebration offers hope of better times to come.

Rigadin acquires a love powder from a gypsy but it is not consumed by his intended target.

Having fallen in love with a beautiful neighbor girl, Rigadin tries to help her get rid of a persistent suitor.

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A bored pasha in an undisclosed country (possibly Morocco?) has his ennui broken by a Charles Prince character dressed as a ballerina.

A black man is introduced at a high society party, where he proposes to a débutante. He's refused because of his colour. He goes to an inventor who has a potion that turns him white. Now she's interested in him, but after he slips her some of the elixir, she's black and he gets to refuse her.

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Hidden behind a parasol, Rigadin was courting his eventual mistress when suddenly he saw his wife and his step-mother walking to him with a smile...

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Marjolin, called for military duty, has cheated on his wife who found out and decided to get even by being a godmother to another soldier, a cook named Brichoux. Brichoux sells his place to Lambrisset who soon makes a pass at the woman. Marjolin's uncle, a colonel, arrives unexpectedly and congratulates his alleged nephew. But Mrs. Lambrisset, thinking that her husband did not get his leave, comes to Paris to visit her friend Mrs. Marjolin, and finds her husband there. The Colonel sweetens her temper.

No synopsis available yet.

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