The White Slave (1939 film)

The White Slave (French: L'esclave blanche) is a 1939 French drama film directed by Marc Sorkin and starring Viviane Romance, John Lodge and Marcel Dalio. German director Georg Wilhelm Pabst acted as a supervisor on the production. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew and Guy de Gastyne, while the costumes were by Marcel Escoffier. It is a loose remake of the 1927 German silent film of the same title.

Synopsis
At the beginning of the twentieth century a Frenchwoman marries a westernised Turkish diplomat and travels with him to his homeland with romantic expectations of an Arabian Nights lifestyle. However she is shocked on getting there by the repressive attitude towards woman. Worse her husband falls out of favour with the Sultan, who faces growing dissent from the Young Turk movement.

Cast

 * Viviane Romance as Mireille
 * John Lodge as Vedad Bey
 * Marcel Dalio as 	Le sultan Soliman
 * Sylvie as Safète – la mère de Vedad
 * Mila Parély as 	Tarkine
 * Paulette Pax as 	L'amie de Safète
 * Marcel Lupovici as 	Mourad
 * Roger Blin as 	Maïr
 * Odile Pascal as 	Akilé, la soeur de Mourad
 * Joe Alex as 	Ali
 * Jacques Mattler as 	Un conseiller
 * Louise Carletti as Sheyla
 * Saturnin Fabre as 	Djemal Pacha
 * Nicolas Amato as 	Un voyageur
 * Jean Brochard as 	Le chef électricien
 * Yvonne Yma as Une Turque dans le train
 * Léon Larive as 	Un fonctionnaire
 * Claire Gérard as 	Une visiteuse
 * Odette Talazac as La mère de Soliman
 * Gaby André as 	Une femme du harem