The Young Girls of Rochefort (partially found English dub of French musical comedy film; 1967)

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The Young Girls of Rochefort poster.jpeg

Original theatrical poster for the English-language version of the film.

Status: Partially found



The Young Girls of Rochefort (French: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort), is a 1965 French musical film directed by Jacques Demy, starring sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac, with George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Jacques Perrin, Danielle Darrieux, and Gene Kelly. The film is Demy's second musical film, following the success of 1964's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. While not quite as successful as that film, it was still a hit in it's native country, and also garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.

The version of the film that was originally theatrically released in the United States was an English-language dub, which was shot simultaneously with the original French-language version. While all the musical numbers were shot in both English and French, the rest of the film was not. This version of the film was not commercially successful, and has not been released on home video in any form.

To date, only two musical numbers from this version, both sourced from low-quality recordings, as well as an extremely rare LP of the English-language soundtrack, are available.