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Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Writers:
Samuel Hoffenstein (screenplay) and
Elizabeth Reinhardt (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
1 May 1946 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Plot:
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Charles Boyer ... Adam Belinski
Jennifer Jones ... Cluny Brown
Peter Lawford ... Andrew Carmel
Helen Walker ... Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream
Reginald Gardiner ... Hilary Ames
Reginald Owen ... Sir Henry Carmel
C. Aubrey Smith ... Colonel Charles Duff Graham (as Sir C. Aubrey Smith)
Richard Haydn ... Jonathan W. Wilson
Margaret Bannerman ... Lady Alice Carmel
Sara Allgood ... Mrs. Maile
Ernest Cossart ... Syrette
Florence Bates ... Dowager at Ames' Party
Una O'Connor ... Mrs. Wilson
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min | Hong Kong:96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Spain:T | UK:U (DVD rating) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Finland:S | USA:Approved (PCA #11436) | UK:A | Sweden:Btl

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Andrew Carmel: [hearing news of the war] I intend to write another letter to the Times.
Adam Belinski: Good.
Andrew Carmel: [uncertainly] No... No, I'll join the R.A.F.
Adam Belinski: Better... join the R.A.F, and rise above the Times.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Biography: Jennifer Jones: Portrait of a Lady" (2001) more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Lubitsch "Lite", 3 April 2003
Author: Greg Couture from Portland, Oregon

Have seen this more than once on TV (though not for quite a few years now) and I'd be first in line if Fox Classics were to issue it on video. It's a slight bit of fluff, given the full Twentieth gloss, and elevated to sublimely sly tongue-in-cheek humor, courtesy of Herr Lubitsch. Everyone in the cast is in top form (Thank goodness David O. Selznick was willing to loan his treasure, Jennifer Jones, to Fox...She's a delight in this one!) Standouts are Sara Allgood as the mansion's oh-so-proper head housekeeper and Richard Haydn as the hilariously stuffy Mr. Wilson, Cluny's would-be suitor. The final shot of Jennifer falling in a dead faint (due to her impending, but not yet obvious maternity) seen through a 5th Avenue bookstore window, is one of the best curtains in screen annals!

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