Service de Luxe
| Service de Luxe | |
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| Directed by | Rowland V. Lee |
| Produced by | Edmund Grainger |
| Written by |
Vera Caspary Bruce Manning Gertrude Purcell Leonard Spigelgass |
| Starring |
Constance Bennett Vincent Price Charles Ruggles Helen Broderick |
| Music by | Charles Henderson |
| Cinematography | George Robinson |
| Edited by | Ted J. Kent |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Service de Luxe is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Constance Bennett, Vincent Price and Charles Ruggles.[1]
Cast
- Constance Bennett as Helen Murphy
- Vincent Price as Robert Wade
- Charles Ruggles as Mr. Robinson
- Helen Broderick as Pearl
- Mischa Auer as Bibenko
- Joy Hodges as Audrey Robinson
- Frances Robinson as Secretary
- Halliwell Hobbes as Butler
- Raymond Parker as Bellhop
- Frank Coghlan Jr. as Bellhop
- Lawrence Grant as Voroshinsky
- Nina Gilbert as Mrs. Devereaux
- Crauford Kent as Mr. Devereaux
- Lionel Belmore as Robert Wade (uncle)
- Chester Clute as Bridegroom
- Ben Hall as Yokel
Plot
Helen Murphy alias Dorothy Madison 1 (Constance Bennett) runs a very successful Agency "Dorothy Madison Services" for wealthy people, who need someone to run their lifes. A huge staff is up nearly 24 hours 7 days a week to attend to all sorts of problems to be solved. Her alter ego Pearl alias Dorothy Madion 2 (Helen Broderick) is there not only to assist Murphy - who dreams to find a man, who is able to run his own life -, in all her daily duties, but to support her in staying with the Madison Services. When Robert Wade, a young inventor - who leaves behind him in Albany 5 old aunts who tried to run his life - comes to town to develop his tractor-model, he only wants to run his own life. Murphy and Wade meet on the boat on which Wade is coming to town. She has to prevent him to come to town, orders from uncle Wade (Lionel Belmore), who is client of Madison Services, but she picks the wrong man to send back home, while she meets Wade and is instantly fascinated by him, although he thinks she's not a career girl and thinks she i rather helpless. When she discovers that the man she met on the boat was Wade, and through Mr. Robinson (Charlie Ruggles) - a client of Murphy - he becomes a client of hers, she has some problems how to manage this relationship. Meantime Mr. Robinson is willing to finance his tractor model and arranges in the basement of his house a laboratory for him. Unfortunately his daughter Audrey (Joy Hodges) has all intentions of the world to marry him. While her father has adapted a kitchen in his library to be taught how to cook by the russian Bibenko (Mischa Auer), Audrey tries to be most of the time in the basement with Wade, who finally says he would marry her, while he is doing something and doesn't think. Fortunately when it comes out that Bibenko is a russian prince, Audrey finds he's the better husband to be, and Wade marries Murphy, who leaves behind all her career girl-life to become a wife - a typical ending of most comedies of the time. [The movie has certain similarities to "More than a Secretary" 1936]
References
- ↑ Kellow p.211
Bibliography
- Kellow, Brian. The Bennetts: An Acting Family. University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
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