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An ironic, tragicomic account of a déclassé romantic triangle, Renoir's
first sound feature stars Michel Simon as Maurice Legrand, mild-mannered
cashier, hen-pecked husband and Sunday painter. After rescuing Lulu (Janie
Marèze) from a beating by her pimp, Dédé (Georges Flammand), Legrand sets
her up as his mistress. Soon, however, to satisfy Dédé, Lulu demands more
and more money and even sells Legrand's paintings as her own, posing as an
American artist named Clara Wood. Totally obsessed with Lulu, Legrand will
do anything to win her love. (Yet when circumstances enable him to break
free of his marriage, Legrand arrives at Lulu's apartment only to find her
in Dédé's arms).
Drawn from a novel by Georges de la Fouchardière, La
Chienne was remade by Fritz Lang in 1945 as Scarlet Street.
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