Ben Mankiewicz Intro - The Private Affairs Of Bel Ami (1947)

Private Affairs Of Bel Ami, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) History Of A Scoundrel

Opening scene by writer-director Albert Lewin, leading man George Sanders as Georges Duroy, brushes off a stranger (Marie Wilson) before meeting his old war buddy Forestier (John Carradine) by chance in a Paris cafè, in The Private Affairs Of Bel Ami, 1947, from a novel by Guy de Maupassant.

Private Affairs Of Bel Ami, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Clever Enough To Be Beautiful

His motives questionable, newly-employed as a novice journalist, Parisian Duroy (George Sanders) has become interested in young widow Clotilde (Angela Lansbury), with an original song by Jack Lawrence and Irving Drutman, and sly conversation in a carriage, in writer-director Albert Lewin’s The Private Affairs Of Bel Ami, 1947.

Private Affairs Of Bel Ami, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Fate Perhaps Had A Hand

Efficient piece by director Albert Lewin, Duroy (George Sanders), in a suit paid for by his host, meets Clotilde (Angela Lansbury), his host’s wife (Ann Dvorak) and guests (David Bond, Frances Dee, Warren William, Hugo Haas, Katherine Emery, Susan Douglas and Albert Basserman), early in The Private Affairs Of Bel Ami, 1947.