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Synopsis: Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. While there, she becomes friendly with Adam Belinski, a charming Czech refugee. She also becomes interested in a dull shopkeeper named Mr. Wilson. Belinski soon falls in love with Cluny and tries to keep her from marrying Wilson.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Ernst Lubitsch
Production: 20th Century Fox
 
IMDB:
7.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
PASSED
Year:
1946
100 min
282 Views


(CLUNY PURRING AND MURMURING)

- I'm sorry, but it's getting late.

- It's never too late for a cat.

You're lying there in bed reading

that wonderful travelogue in the Daily Mail

and wanting to go places

and wondering if you ever will.

And all of a sudden, you're a cat

and you start to climb

and you leap out of the window into the fog.

Then suddenly the fog lifts,

and it isn't London, it's Baghdad.

Next week, I'll be in Cairo.

Oh, it's so wonderful to be a cat

and read the Daily Mail.

Look, I implore you...

(DOORBELL BUZZING)

Good heavens, there they are now. Please...

- Yes?

- I'm the...

(CLUNY MEOWING)

Oh, I feel so wonderful.

So free.

- Cluny Brown, what are you doing here?

- Uncle Arn!

What does this mean?

What are you doing on that there couch?

I've been plumbing, Uncle Arn. Just plumbing.

Cluny Brown, has something happened

I ought to know about?

- I don't think so.

- Lucky I found the address wrote down

or I might never have looked you

in the face again.

- I assure you, Uncle Arn...

- Name's Porritt! Mr Porritt!

Liquor, too! Giving strong drink

to a young girl, that beats all!

I've half a mind...

- You haven't met Mr Ames, the host.

- I've no wish to meet the individual.

Oh but, Uncle Arn, these gentlemen

have been so nice to me.

There you go again, taken advantage of.

You don't know your place.

Get your things here.

You never will know your place.

But, Uncle Arn, what is my place?

What's anybody's place? What's your place?

If you want to feed nuts to the squirrels,

who am I to say... do you?

That settles it.

You're going into service, you are.

You're going to be a domestic

in a decent home. Come along.

Oh, by the way, I haven't paid you yet.

Will this do?

You can't buy me off

with your filthy pound note.

- Come, Cluny Brown.

- Thank you, gentlemen, for everything.

A British subject calling

a symbol of the empire filthy.

Permit me.

Filthy? I differ with him emphatically, Ames.

When the lower classes

start throwing away pound notes,

the upper classes better look out.

I dare say.

# Perhaps you wonder who I am

or maybe you don't care

# But I spend a great part of my time

on the fringes of Mayfair

# I'm never asked to parties

but I go to them just the same #

- Why do people go to cocktail parties?

- Because people give cocktail parties.

- Why do people give them?

- Because people go to them.

It's a vicious circle. Like perpetual motion.

Oh, it's depressing.

Parties and people laughing,

with Europe on the brink.

Yes. Hitler and Vienna and Prague,

and people go around having fun.

Oh, I'm so tired of hearing Hitler

and Mussolini and...

Betty, I'm surprised!

You talk like a superficial girl who thinks

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Samuel Hoffenstein

Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein (October 8, 1890 - October 6, 1947) was a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Russia, he emigrated to the United States and began a career in New York City as a newspaper writer and in the entertainment business. In 1931 he moved to Los Angeles, where he lived for the rest of his life and where he wrote the scripts for over thirty movies. These movies included Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Miracle Man (1932), Phantom of the Opera (1943), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Tales of Manhattan (1942), Flesh and Fantasy (1943), Laura (1944), and Ernst Lubitsch's Cluny Brown (1946). In addition, Hoffenstein, along with Cole Porter and Kenneth Webb, helped compose the musical score for Gay Divorce (1933), the stage musical that became the film The Gay Divorcee (1934). He died in Los Angeles, California. A book of his verse, Pencil in the Air, was published three days after his death to critical acclaim. Another book of his work was published in 1928, titled Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing. The book contained some of his work that had been formerly published in the New York World, the New York Tribune, Vanity Fair, the D. A. C. News, and Snappy Stories. more…

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