The Earrings of Madame De...: Directed by Max Ophüls. With Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt. When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.