Léontine en vacances
Léontine en vacances
Romeo Bosetti
Léontine is spending the holidays with relatives in the countryside – the perfect opportunity to play a prank or two! Perfume, pots, fruit, vegetables, chairs, uncle, aunt, the cook, the gardener – nothing and no one is safe from her mischief. Not even a scolding or the threat of having her holiday cut short can dampen her rebellious spirit. Many of the Léontine films are a joyous celebration of freedom, audacity, rule-breaking – pure anarchy.
How is it possible that we don’t even know the name of the actor who played Léontine, let alone her life story? An internationally beloved enfant terrible, the film character of Léontine Penouillard was comical, naughty and anarchic. Between 1910 and 1912, Pathé Frères produced around 20 episodes of the Léontine series. Nicknamed Titine in France and Betty in the US and Britain, she enjoyed global popularity, but then disappeared from the public eye.
Romeo Bosetti
Roméo Bosetti, who was born in Chiari, Italy in 1879, was a French actor, director and screenwriter. He joined Pathé Frères in 1906, where he specialised in short comedy films, many of them following Léontine and her mischievous pranks. Bosetti is considered a pioneer of slapstick in early French cinema. He died in Suresnes, France, in 1948.
Films by Romeo Bosetti (selection)
Zoé et le parapluie miraculeux 1913, Les malices de Léontine 1912, Léontine garde la maison 1912, Little Moritz demande Rosalie en mariage 1911, Little Moritz enlève Rosalie 1911, Rosalie et Léontine vont au théâtre 1911, Léontine enfant terrible 1911, Un ravalement précipité 1911
