A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a lecherous aristocrat, his starry-eyed nephew, and an old ham actor.
Louis Jouvet
as Monchablon
Bourvil
as Urbain de la Tour-Mirande
Saturnin Fabre
as Le marquis
Danièle Delorme
as Miquette
Mireille Perrey
as Madame veuve Hermine Grandier
Pauline Carton
as Perrine
Jeanne Fusier-Gir
as Mademoiselle Poche
Madeleine Suffel
as Noémie
Maurice Schutz
as Panouillard
Pierre Olaf
as Le jeune premier
Paul Barge
as L'abbé
Raymond Dandy
as Pierre