Stage Hat Worn By Sacha Guitry In The Lame Devil

Exceptional theatrical document: Hat part of Sacha Guitry's masked ball costume in the film Le Diable boiteux. We don't need to introduce Sacha Guitry, he brilliantly does it himself in his remarkable credits. We will simply recall that, son of a famous actor Lucien Guitry, Sarah Bernard's favorite partner, he crossed the 20th century entertaining France with his plays and his films with inimitable flavor, annoying the mediocre with his talent, his vain conceit, and his lavish lifestyle. "if they knew all the bad things I think of them, they would have said much more" It is not good to shine, in the eyes of the embittered after an occupation (the courts had issued wanted notices to find witnesses against him. A dismissal was issued, the file empty, despite the unfathomable desire to brand him). Deeply wounded by this parody of justice, his return to the stage was an opportunity to brilliantly settle his scores with the vox populi through a sulphurous role, Talleyrand. Hated by the , praised by others, he was the ideal double. During the film a masked ball is given in Valencay, and Sacha disguises himself as Christopher Columbus. This hat is the one worn by Guitry during this with Lana Marconi who plays Madame Grand, his wife (we also present her toque). The provenance is astonishing, but how moving: the waste from the author's mansion, rue Elysee Reclus, when Lana Marconi, recently widowed, having sold her house and collections, threw away the then unrecoverable souvenirs of the master. A young man, a neighbor of the place, aware of the extraordinary value of these abandoned objects, souvenirs of an unparalleled career, picked up what he could and carefully preserved it. It was only when they were old enough that these relics were dispersed again. Good general condition, some wear and tear inside. The bauta is only there to create the illusion of a face.