La Belle Américaine The American Beauty, is a French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 comedy

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 film from 1961, directed by Robert Dhéry, written by Alfred Adam

Alfred Adam

Alfred Adam was a French character actor, who usually played weak or villainous roles.-Partial filmography:*La Kermesse Héroïque *Au service du Tsar *La Glu *Carnet de Bal...

, starring Alfred Adam

Alfred Adam

Alfred Adam was a French character actor, who usually played weak or villainous roles.-Partial filmography:*La Kermesse Héroïque *Au service du Tsar *La Glu *Carnet de Bal...

 and Louis de Funès

Louis de Funès

Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza was a very popular French actor who is one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel...

. The film was known under the titles: "La bella americana" (Italy), "The American Beauty" (English title), "Der tolle Amerikaner" (West Germany).

in the summer of 1962 in August (before its release in France I now see)i was working near Amsterdam and saw this film in a Dutch cinema. I clearly recall that the experience was surreal and incomprehensible!
There was I a Brit watching a French made film about an American car with a French soundtrack and Dutch subtitles. You will forgive me therefore for not providing a synopsis of the film which you can readily read on the Internet Movie DataBase (see the link below)

Cast

• Alfred Adam
  Alfred Adam
  Alfred Adam was a French character actor, who usually played weak or villainous roles.-Partial filmography:*La Kermesse Héroïque *Au service du Tsar *La Glu *Carnet de Bal...
  
   : Alfred Perrignon
• Colette Brosset
  Colette Brosset
  Colette Marie Claudette Brosset was a French actress, writer and choreographer.She was once married to actor Robert Dhéry, with whom she appeared onstage in La Plume de Ma Tante....
  
   : Paulette Perrignon
• Robert Burnier : Houche
• Pierre Dac
  Pierre Dac
  André Isaac , better known as Pierre Dac was a French humorist and Résistance activist.He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne and died in Paris....
  
   : the colonel
• Éliane d'Almeida : Simone
• Bernard Dhéran : M. Jean
• Robert Dhéry : Marcel Perrignon
• Annie Ducaux
  Annie Ducaux
  Annie Ducaux was a French actress, who had appeared in 40 film and television productions between 1932 and 1980. Also Ducaux served as a shareholder of the state theater Comédie-Française since 1948, and played in numerous stage productions there...
  
   : Mrs Lucanzas
• Jacques Fabbri : Le gros
• Louis de Funès
  Louis de Funès
  Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza was a very popular French actor who is one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel...
  
   : Les frères Viralot, the captain and the personnel manager
• Bernard Lavalette : Le ministre du commerce
• Jean Lefebvre
  Jean Lefebvre
  Jean Lefebvre was a French film actor.-Selected filmography:* La Belle Américaine * La Vendetta * Konga Yo...
  
   : Chougnasse, le chef comptable
• Jacques Legras : Riri, le cafetier
• Christian Marin
  Christian Marin
  Christian Marin , a French film actor, he is known for his role in Le gendarme series . He did not play in last two sequels...
  
   : Pierrot
• Fernand Raynaud
  Fernand Raynaud
  André Gustave Fernand Raynaud, best known as Fernand Raynaud , was a French stand-up comic star, an actor and a singer...
  
  : himself in his comedy sketche : La Bougie (on a TV show)

External links

• La Belle Américaine (1961) at the Films de France