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Director:
Writers:
Samuel Hoffenstein (screenplay) and
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Release Date:
1 May 1946 (USA) more
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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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a Lubitsch picture with a slight Lubitsch touch more (16 total)

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
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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) | Argentina:Atp | Finland:S | USA:Approved (PCA #11436) | UK:A | Sweden:Btl

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6 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
a Lubitsch picture with a slight Lubitsch touch, 7 February 2001
6/10
Author: vostf from Paris, Fr

You feel the Lubitsch touch many times along the movie but it doesn't work very well. There are funny situations, funny dialogues but it never takes the shape of some wild comedies Lubitsch directed before.

What's lacking?

A good plot. There was a good idea but the movie gets stuck in an english manor.

Charles Boyer plays a character who doesn't deserve the leading role. This Czech writer is a scrounger and quite a smooth-tongued coward.

Jennifer Jones plays ingénue Cluny Brown, a girl with a naive aspiration for 'her place'.

So different, so close. Well there was a development in The Shop Around the Corner. Here the development is flat and the happy pair has little to arouse emotion.

Too many funny situations are based on the english composure. That's a bit light for a whole comedy. But Lubitsch gave us comedies with lots of laughs and fun which largely make up for that minor ultimate opus.

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