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Cluny Brown

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To teach her to stay within her social station, Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones) is sent by her plumber uncle to work as a parlor maid in the country house of Sir Henry Carmel (Reginald Owen) and his wife, Alice (Margaret Bannerman). Brown soon finds herself torn between her attraction to Adam Belinski (Charles Boyer), a political refugee staying as a houseguest, and the prospect of a stable marriage with stuffy Jonathan Wilson (Richard Haydn), a chemist.

Critics Reviews

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Keith Uhlich Time Out 05/25/2023
5/5
So go feed some squirrels to the nuts. This is as good as movies get. Go to Full Review Richard Brody The New Yorker 06/05/2014
Ernst Lubitsch's last completed film, from 1946, looks back to the prewar year of 1938 to take stock of the postwar world and to show how it got that way. Go to Full Review Tom Milne Time Out 06/05/2014
Lubitsch's last film and one of his most engaging comedies. Go to Full Review James Agee The Nation 06/23/2021
Lubitsch's direction -- always, at its best, so shrewd about protocol -- makes the film more amusing than there was any other reason to expect; and Richard Haydn's performance as a prissily bullying, mother-bound druggist is very nice caricature. Go to Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 08/11/2020
3.5/5
Effervescent, as Lubitsch was oft wont to be, it may not reach the generously comical heights of his greatest, but it's a fitting finale in its devious examination of smug, supercilious social hierarchies. Go to Full Review Alberto Abuín Espinof 02/12/2020
Still a good movie, which recovers in some moments the best of Lubitsch. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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tvwriter 2 @tvwriter2 Jan 13 Pour a cup of tea and spend some enjoyable time in the English countryside with Cluny Brown, courtesy of master director Lubitsch's last completed film. Hats off to the director, Charles Boyer, and a sparkling Jennifer Jones. Interesting notes... Jones was under contract to David O. Selznick and was noteworthy in Selznick's Since You Went Away, while Boyer starred in Selznick's The Garden of Allah. And watch out for a marvelous, quick appearance by C. Aubrey Smith as an English gentleman, after he was so good in Selznick's Little Lord Fauntleroy and Prisoner of Zenda. Enjoy Cluny Brown. You might want to add a crumpet or two with your tea. Have a good time. See more Frances H 12/09/2021 Not up to Margary Sharp' usual standards. This plot is just a bit too much,, although interesting. But I prefer her Britannia Mews and the Miss Bianca children's books. See more 05/24/2020 Jennifer Jones proves she has some wonderful comic timing (though her accent is awful). Over all, it is very hard to follow what is going on in this movie. Its like an inside joke that you try to get in on, and then realize you don’t care. It’s just boring. See more 04/24/2020 Still hilarious Lubitch flick. See more Thomas M @TMProofreader 01/27/2019 The best comedy movie ever made! See more s r @ScottR 04/28/2017 A cute romantic comedy about breaking stereotypes for love. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Ernst Lubitsch

Director

Charles Boyer

Adam Belinski

Jennifer Jones

Cluny Brown

Peter Lawford

Andrew Carmel

Helen Walker

Elizabeth "Betty" Cream

Reginald Gardiner

Hilary Ames

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Synopsis To teach her to stay within her social station, Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones) is sent by her plumber uncle to work as a parlor maid in the country house of Sir Henry Carmel (Reginald Owen) and his wife, Alice (Margaret Bannerman). Brown soon finds herself torn between her attraction to Adam Belinski (Charles Boyer), a political refugee staying as a houseguest, and the prospect of a stable marriage with stuffy Jonathan Wilson (Richard Haydn), a chemist.
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Production Co
Twentieth Century Fox
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 40m