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The final film completed by Ernst Lubitsch, this zany, zippy comedy of manners, set in England on the cusp of World War II, is one of the worldly-wise director’s most effervescent creations. Jennifer Jones shines in a rare comedic turn as Cluny Brown, an irrepressible heroine with a zeal for plumbing. Sent to work as a parlormaid at a stuffy country manor, she proceeds to turn the household upside down—with plenty of help from Adam Belinski (Charles Boyer), an eccentric Continental exile who has fled the Nazis but is still worried about where his next meal is coming from. Sending up British class hierarchy with Lubitsch’s famously light touch, Cluny Brown is a topsy-turvy farce that says nuts to the squirrels and squirrels to the nuts.
Original Release
05/29/1946
US Release
06/02/1946
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Charles Boyer | Adam Belinski |
Jennifer Jones | Cluny Brown |
Peter Lawford | Andrew Carmel |
Helen Walker | Betty Cream |
Reginald Gardiner | Hilary Ames |
Reginald Owen | Sir Henry Carmel / Henry Carmel |
C. Aubrey Smith | Col. Charles Duff Graham / Charles "Duff" Graham |
Richard Haydn | Jonathan Wilson |
Margaret Bannerman | Lady Alice Carmel / Alice Carmel |
Sara Allgood | Mrs. Maile |
Directors
Writers
Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhardt, Margery Sharp, James Hilton
Cast
Name | Character |
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Charles Boyer | Adam Belinski |
Jennifer Jones | Cluny Brown |
Peter Lawford | Andrew Carmel |
Helen Walker | Betty Cream |
Reginald Gardiner | Hilary Ames |
Reginald Owen | Sir Henry Carmel / Henry Carmel |
C. Aubrey Smith | Col. Charles Duff Graham / Charles "Duff" Graham |
Richard Haydn | Jonathan Wilson |
Margaret Bannerman | Lady Alice Carmel / Alice Carmel |
Sara Allgood | Mrs. Maile |
Ernest Cossart | Syrette |
Florence Bates | Dowager at Ames' Party / Dowager at Ames's Party |
Una O'Connor | Mrs. Wilson |
Norman Ainsley | Mr. Tupham |
Billy Bevan | Uncle Arn Porritt |
Whit Bissell | Archie |
Bette Rae Brown | Girl at Party |
Charles Coleman | Constable Birkins |
Harold De Becker | Mr. Snaffle |
Michael Dyne | John Frewen |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ernst Lubitsch | Producer |