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cast: 28
crew: 15
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# The Life of Emile Zola (1937): cast and crew

28 cast and 15 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Paul Muni](https://film.one/person/paul-muni.md) as Emile Zola
- [Gale Sondergaard](https://film.one/person/gale-sondergaard.md) as Lucie Dreyfus
- [Joseph Schildkraut](https://film.one/person/joseph-schildkraut.md) as Capt. Alfred Dreyfus
- [Gloria Holden](https://film.one/person/gloria-holden.md) as Alexandrine Zola
- [Donald Crisp](https://film.one/person/donald-crisp.md) as Maitre Labori
- [Erin O'Brien-Moore](https://film.one/person/erin-obrien-moore.md) as Nana
- [John Litel](https://film.one/person/john-litel.md) as Charpentier
- [Henry O'Neill](https://film.one/person/henry-oneill.md) as Colonel Picquart
- [Morris Carnovsky](https://film.one/person/morris-carnovsky.md) as Anatole France
- [Louis Calhern](https://film.one/person/louis-calhern.md) as Major Dort
- [Ralph Morgan](https://film.one/person/ralph-morgan.md) as Commander of Paris
- [Robert Barrat](https://film.one/person/robert-barrat.md) as Major Walsin-Esterhazy
- [Vladimir Sokoloff](https://film.one/person/vladimir-sokoloff.md) as Paul Cezanne
- [Grant Mitchell](https://film.one/person/grant-mitchell.md) as Georges Clemenceau
- [Harry Davenport](https://film.one/person/harry-davenport.md) as Chief of Staff
- [Robert Warwick](https://film.one/person/robert-warwick.md) as Colonel Henry
- [Charles Richman](https://film.one/person/charles-richman.md) as M. Delagorgue
- [Gilbert Emery](https://film.one/person/gilbert-emery.md) as Minister of War
- [Walter Kingsford](https://film.one/person/walter-kingsford.md) as Colonel Sandherr
- Paul Everton as Assistant Chief of Staff
- [Montagu Love](https://film.one/person/montagu-love.md) as M. Cavaignac
- Frank Sheridan as M. Van Cassell
- [Lumsden Hare](https://film.one/person/lumsden-hare.md) as Mr. Richards
- [Marcia Mae Jones](https://film.one/person/marcia-mae-jones.md) as Helen Richards
- [Florence Roberts](https://film.one/person/florence-roberts.md) as Madame Zola
- [Dickie Moore](https://film.one/person/dickie-moore.md) as Pierre Dreyfus
- Rolla Gourvitch as Jeanne Dreyfus
- [Franklyn Farnum](https://film.one/person/franklyn-farnum.md) as (uncredited)

## Directing

- [William Dieterle](https://film.one/person/william-dieterle.md): Director

## Writing

- [Heinz Herald](https://film.one/person/heinz-herald.md): Screenplay, Story
- [Norman Reilly Raine](https://film.one/person/norman-reilly-raine.md): Screenplay
- Matthew Josephson: Book
- [Geza Herczeg](https://film.one/person/geza-herczeg.md): Screenplay, Story

## Production

- [Henry Blanke](https://film.one/person/henry-blanke.md): Producer

## Camera

- [Tony Gaudio](https://film.one/person/tony-gaudio.md): Director of Photography

## Editing

- [Warren Low](https://film.one/person/warren-low.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [Leo F. Forbstein](https://film.one/person/leo-f-forbstein.md): Music Director
- [Max Steiner](https://film.one/person/max-steiner.md): Original Music Composer

## Art

- Anton Grot: Art Direction

## Costume and make-up

- [Ali Hubert](https://film.one/person/ali-hubert.md): Costume Design
- Perc Westmore: Makeup Artist
- [Milo Anderson](https://film.one/person/milo-anderson.md): Costume Design

## Crew

- [Irving Rapper](https://film.one/person/irving-rapper.md): Dialogue Coach

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