The French actor, writer, manager and director, Sacha Guitry had a prolific output of plays and films. His stage works range from historical dramas to contemporary light comedies. Some have musical scores, by composers including André Messager and Reynaldo Hahn. During the era of silent films Guitry avoided them, finding the lack of spoken dialogue fatal to dramatic impact. From the 1930s to the end of his life he enthusiastically embraced the cinema, making as many as five films in a single year.
Le Renard et la Grenouille, comedy in one act (Théâtre de la Michodière, 1933)
Florestan Ier, prince de Monaco, opérette in three acts and six tableaux, music by Werner R. Heymann (théâtre des Variétés, 1933)
L’École des philosophes, sketch in one act (Palais des beaux-arts de Bruxelles, 1933)
Son père et lui, play en quatre tableaux (Opéra de Lyon, 1934)
Le Nouveau Testament, comedy in four acts (théâtre de la Madeleine, 1934)
Mon ami Pierrot, "légende musicale" in one act and deux tableaux, music by Sam Barlow (Opéra-Comique, 1935)
Quand jouons-nous la comedy?, comedy in three acts, a prologue and an épilogue (théâtre de la Madeleine, 1935)
La Fin du monde, comedy in five acts (théâtre de la Madeleine, 1935)
Le Saut périlleux, drama in one act (New York, 1936)
Geneviève, comedy in five acts (théâtre de la Madeleine, 1936)
Le Mot de Cambronne, comedy in one act in verse (théâtre de la Madeleine, 1936)
Crions-le sur les toits, "revue publicitaire" in two acts and fifteen tableaux, music by Arthur Honegger, Adolphe Borchard and Guy Lafarge (théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 1937)
Quadrille, comedy in six acts (théâtre de la Madeleine, 1937)
Dieu sauve le Roi, sketch in one act (palais de l’Élysée, 1938)
Un monde fou, comedy in four acts (théâtre de la Madeleine, 1938)
You're Telling Me (ou Honi soit qui mal y pense), "franco-anglais" sketch in one act (London, 1939)
Une paire de gifles, comedy in one act (1939)
Une lettre bien tapée, comedy in one act (1939)
Fausse Alerte, sketch in one act (1939)
Florence, comedy in three acts and a prologue (Théâtre de la Madeleine, 1939)
L’École du mensonge, comedy in one act (ABC de Genève, 1940)
Cigales et Fourmis, sketch in one act (Cercle interallié, 1940)
Le Bien-Aimé, comedy in three acts "but in several tableaux" (Théâtre de la Madeleine, 1940)
Mon auguste grand-père ou La Preuve par sept, comedy in five acts (1941)
Vive l'Empereur ! ou le Soir d'Austerlitz, comedy in five acts (théâtre de la Madeleine, 1941)