La femme du boulanger [The Baker's Wife] (Original photograph of Marcel Pagnol, Robert Bassac, and Robert Vattier on the set of the 1938 French film)

N.p.: N.p., 1937. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1938 film. A candid, on-the-set photograph by the film's credited still photographer, Roger Corbeau, capturing a scene in the town square between the town priest (Robert Vattier) and schoolteacher (Robert Bassac), with the camera crew just to the left, director Marcel Pagnol looking on in the center background, and several members of the cast waiting just outside the frame, to the far right. With Roger Corbeau's photo credit ("PHOTO ROGER CORBEAU") at the bottom left of the frame. With a stamp for the Cinemonde Archives on the verso.

An extraordinary "fourth wall" shot, demonstrating at once the method and the magic of Pagnol's filmmaking, as well as his relentless interest in provincial life in France.

Loosely based on Jean Giono's 1932 novel "Blue Boy," the film follows a small-town baker's wife who runs away with a handsome younger shepherd, leaving the baker heartbroken and unable to work. The villagers, who initially laugh at his cuckoldry, soon take the matter very seriously, and organize a plan to find the wife and to bring her back to her husband.

9.25 x 7 inches. About Fine.