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Status
Released
Release
1964
Runtime
1h 20m
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Gaston Bellus, is the director of a textile house, and the research laboratory makes a sensational discovery: the elastic fabric. This new discovery is used to manufacture new modern stretchable bathing suits. His daughter Clementine, enters the beauty pageant to represent France for the swimsuit launch. But scandal ensues when the public soon discover, the photos of the event in which this new revolutionary material is completely invisible on photographs & live television.
22 Cast Members
France Anglade
Clémentine Bellus
Michel Serrault
Maître Brunet
Pierre Doris
Gaston Bellus
Philippe Noiret
Edgar Hoover
Jacques Dufilho
Spanish maid
Noël Roquevert
FBI Concierge
Adrienne Servantie
Yvonne Bellus
Max Montavon
FBI elevator operator
Michel Galabru
FBI engineer
Jean Tissier
Versigny
Jean Richard
Auguste
Claude Nicot
Alain
Guy Lux
Self
Bernard Dumaine
Television director
Dany Logan
Self - guest who twists to the music of Mozart
André Badin
Concierge of Passy
Rita Pavone
Self (uncredited)
Francis Blanche
Nuisance at the Miss ceremony (uncredited)
Charles Bayard
Passerby who says "Quelle époque" (uncredited)
Marcel Loche
Member of the FBI board of directors (uncredited)