Servants' Entrance (1934)

Servants' Entrance is a 1934 American Pre-Code musical comedy film. The movie was written by Samson Raphaelson from the Sigrid Boo novel and directed by Frank Lloyd, with a cartoon sequence by Walt Disney in which an understandably startled Janet Gaynor sings a song while obstreperous animated singing silverware prance around on her bed, an early example of combining live action with animation. Critics found this musical interlude especially charming.

This film was adapted from Sigrid Boo's 1930 Norwegian novel Vi som går kjøkkenveien ("We Who Enter Through the Kitchen") which has an almost identical plot to Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd's popular 1917 novel How Could You, Jean?, which had already been adapted into a film of the same name in 1918, directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Mary Pickford. Servants' Entrance plot was strikingly identical to that of the earlier film; as the New York Times commented, "apparently, the old Pickford comedy was already forgotten, and no copyright infringement suit was filed."

Synopsis

En Norvège, Heiress Hedda Nilson, une jeune fille de bonne famille dont le père est un riche banquier est sur le point de se marier. Persuadée que ses parents subissent un important revers financier, elle décide de trouver un emploi pour aider le foyer familial. Avec son fiance, Karl Berghoff, elle entreprend ainsi de vivre durant trois mois, le quotidien de gens simples en devenant elle domestique, lui chauffeur personnel....Mais bientôt les complications arrivent.

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