Man About Town (1947 film)

Man About Town original title Le Silence est dor Silence is golden is a 1947 FrenchAmerican film written and directed by Ren Clair. It was released in a shortened version in the USA as Man About Town see below. The film marked Clairs return to working in France after twelve years abroad in Britain and the USA.

Afteryears of working in Great Britain and then in the USA during World War II, Ren Clair returned to France in 1946 having signed a contract with RKO to produce his next film there. Other funding for the film came from Path. Filming took place at the Joinville Studios in Paris.Clair chose as the background for his story the very early days of silent filmmaking. In his introduction to the published screenplay he wrote, Without doubt some memories of youth have given birth to the comedy that follows. The action of this film takes place during the heroic period of French cinema. The advent of this industry does not form the subject of our story. It is, at the very most, only the background for the action. The author, who has a moderate taste for exceptional subjects, thinks, in effect, that making a film consecrated to the cinema is as dangerous as writing a play the heroes of which are comedians or a novel the main character of which is a novelist. It would be fortunate, however, if the reader understood that, by prompting remembrances of the artisans who, between 1900 and 1910, gave birth, in France, to the first cinema industry in the world, their pupil wanted to render homage to their memory. ........

Source: Wikipedia