Would-Be Gentleman
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.
- Year: 1968
- Country: France
- Genre: Comedy, TV Movie
- Studio: Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
- Keyword: marriage proposal, france, diamond, music teacher, bourgeoisie, ignorance, count, based on play or musical, maid, love affair, parasite, nobility, dance teacher, 17th century, ottoman empire
- Director: Pierre Badel
- Cast: Michel Serrault, Rosy Varte, Daniel Ceccaldi, Jean-Pierre Darras, Roger Carel, Henri Virlogeux