La Chienne (a.k.a. The Bitch) (1931) - (Movie Clip) You Spoil Me, Darling

La Chienne (a.k.a. The Bitch) (1931) -- (Movie Clip) You Call That Passion?

Following his first meeting with Paris streetwalker Lulu, cashier LeGrand (Michel Simon), known around his office as a boring fellow with a domineering wife, returns home to her (Madeleine Berubet), angered over his timing and his painting hobby, in director Jean Renoir’s celebrated second sound feature, La Chienne, a.k.a. The Bitch, 1931.

La Chienne (a.k.a. The Bitch) (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Open, A Stirring Social Drama

The opening credits to Jean Renoir’s sensational second sound feature (he first made a quick farcical comedy, to show producers his ability with the new medium), then a framing device, using puppets to introduce his stars, Michel Simon, Janie Marese and Georges Flamant, in La Chienne, a.k.a. The Bitch, 1931.

La Chienne (a.k.a. The Bitch) (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Men Are Such Bores

Jean Renoir directing his second sound feature, at a Paris art-scene salon, prostitute Lulu (Janie Parèse), who’s posing as fictional Clara, a suddenly popular painter, in a dancing-fight with her pimp-partner Dèdè (Georges Flamant) works with cohorts Alexandre Rignault, Pierre Desty and Lucien Mancini to schmooze a new customer (Jean Gehret), in La Chienne, a.k.a. The Bitch, 1931.

La Chienne (a.k.a. The Bitch) (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Get Your Claws In This Guy

From director Jean Renoir, shooting on location in Paris, the first scene (following an earlier introduction) for Lulu (Janie Marèse) and Dèdè (Georges Flamant), meeting LeGrand (Michel Simon), the notoriously dull guy who chose not to attend the after-party following a company banquet, early in La Chienne, a.k.a. The Bitch, 1931.