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Would-Be Gentleman
Would-Be Gentleman
Comedy, TV Movie 12/28/1968

Would-Be Gentleman (1968)

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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.

Pierre Badel

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