Les Petites Cardinal

Napoleon III, the Commune, the third Republic in the background. In the foreground, two pretty, talented sisters, Virginie and Pauline Cardinal. They are ballerinas at the Opera de Paris and very much courted by wealthy, elegant men. They will manage to climb in the society of their time, despite parents set on respectability but also attracted by money.

Saturnin Fabre

(Horace Cardinal)

Véra Norman

(Virginie Cardinal)

Denise Grey

(Mrs. Cardinal)

Jacques Castelot

(The Baron of Glaïeuls)

Claude Nicot

(Gaspard)

Sophie Leclair

(Pauline Cardinal)

Jacques Meyran

(Giuseppe Chamborini, singing master)

Henri Niel

(The concierge)

Jacqueline Noëlle

(Anais, a dancer)

Paul Azaïs

(The stage manager)

Jean Tissier

(Marquis Alberto de Cavalcanti)

Jacques Beauvais

(The coachman (uncredited))

Gérard Buhr

((uncredited))

Jacqueline Guelis

((uncredited))

René Hell

(The Bonapartist (uncredited))

Charles Lemontier

(Jacquelin (uncredited))

Albert Michel

(The Gendarme (uncredited))

Georges Paulais

(The porter (uncredited))

Jacqueline Rivière

(The diva (uncredited))

Georges Sauval

(The shopkeeper (uncredited))