The Earrings Of Madame De ...

In the opening scene, elegance as a signature of director Max Ophuls, the heroine (Danielle Darrieux) talks to herself and the audience in The Earrings of Madame De..., 1954.

The first two meetings, the first not altogether accidental but unsuccessful, between Baron Donati (Vittorio de Sica), en route to Paris, and Louise (a.k.a. "Madame De...," Danielle Darrieux,) in director Max Ophuls' The Earrings of Madame De..., 1954.

Casually terrific scene by director Max Ophuls, nobelman-general Andre (Charles Boyer) scrambles to a Paris station to see off his mistress (Lia De Leo), leaving for unstated reasons, presenting the earrings he bought back from the jeweler to whom his wife secretly sold them, in The Earrings Of Madame De…, 1954.

Opening credit sequence and prologue from director Max Ophuls' acclaimed The Earrings of Madame De..., 1954, starring Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer and Vittorio De Sica.