School for Coquettes is 1918 French comedy play by Paul Armont

Paul Armont

Paul Armont was a Russian-born French playwright and screenwriter. He also collaborated with the Swiss writer Marcel Gerbidon. He was born Dimitri Petrococchino in Rostov in the Russian Empire....

 and Marcel Gerbidon

Marcel Gerbidon

Marcel Gerbidon was a Swiss playwright and screenwriter. He collaborated frequently with Paul Armont. A number of his plays have been adapted into films such as the 1958 film School for Coquettes.-Bibliography:...

. A young working class woman attends a school to turn her into a coquette

Coquette

A coquette is a woman who flirts girlishly with men to gain their admiration; a flirt.Coquette may also refer to:*Coquette , an Academy Award winning 1929 film starring Mary Pickford...

 in the hope it will allow her to rise up the social scale. It was first performed at the Grand Guignol

Grand Guignol

Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol — known as the Grand Guignol — was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris . From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962 it specialized in naturalistic horror shows...

 Theatre in Paris.

A 1928 British play Excelsior was based on the play, written by H.M. Harwood and starring Gladys Cooper

Gladys Cooper

Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television....

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Adaptations

The film has been turned into films twice. A 1935 film School for Coquettes

School for Coquettes (1935 film)

School for Coquettes is a 1935 French comedy film directed by Pierre Colombier and starring Raimu, André Lefaur and Renée Saint-Cyr. It is based on the 1918 play School for Coquettes by Marcel Gerbidon and Paul Armont...

directed by Pierre Colombier

Pierre Colombier

-Selected filmography:Director* Charlemagne * School for Coquettes...

 and a 1958 film School for Coquettes

School for Coquettes (1958 film)

School for Coquettes is a 1958 French comedy film directed by Jacqueline Audry and starring Dany Robin, Fernand Gravey and Bernard Blier. A young Parisian woman attends a school for coquettes in order to help her rise in society...

directed by Jacqueline Audry

Jacqueline Audry

Jacqueline Audry was a French film director who started making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful woman director of post-war France....

. It was also made into a 1985 television play.