French visa #10072 delivered on 21-8-1950.
René Clair would have liked to adapt the play, but Emile Couzinet had already optioned it.
Barillet and Grédy's play "Le don d'Adèle" premiered in Bordeaux in November 1949, directed by Jacques Charon and starring Gaby Sylvia in the first 400 performances. The Paris premiere took place in 1950.
That same year, this hectic comedy was awarded the Prix Tristan Bernard.