Cafe Americain

Café Americain
Main cast
Created by	Peter Noah
Starring	Valerie Bertinelli Lila Kaye Sofia Milos Maurice Godin Jodi Long Graham Beckel
Composer(s)	Roger Bellon
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	18
Production
Executive producer(s)	Jack Grossbart
Producer(s)	Pamela Grant Peter Noah
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Peter Noah Productions Warner Bros. Television
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	September 18, 1993 – May 28, 1994

Café Americain is an American sitcom starring Valerie Bertinelli which aired on NBC from September 18, 1993 to February 8, 1994 with two leftover episodes shown on May 28, 1994. It was filmed at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California.

Bertinelli played a young American woman, Holly Aldrige, who finds a job working as a waitress in a small café in France. The cast consisted of an assortment of eccentric characters from around the world who regularly visited the café, interacting in many hilarious circumstances. Madame Ybarra, a former dictator's wife, was a thinly veiled spoof of Imelda Marcos. Fabiana Borelli, the tempestuous Italian model, and her perpetually jealous Italian lover Carlo, regularly sparred and reconciled, with Carlo declaring of any real or imagined rival, "I kill him! I kill him bad! I kill him two times!" Marcel's on and off relationship with Holly set the stage for comedic interference by several guest star suitors.

Although Lila Kaye played the role of Margaret in the series pilot, the role was re-cast with Happy Days actress Marion Ross when the series was picked up. Within a month, Ross was gone and Kaye agreed to reprise the role The role of Margaret Hunt was also offered to Rue McClanahan, but she turned it down.

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