Cluny Brown (1946)

Directed by

Ernst Lubitsch

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 104 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An eccentric plumber's niece upends the stuffy routines of an upper-class English household. She charms a Czech exile who works as a butler, leading to romantic complications.

lightheartedwhimsicalsatiricalplayfulsunnybreezyromanticold-fashioned

What happens

Cluny Brown is a 1946 American romantic comedy film made by Twentieth Century-Fox starring Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones. It was directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch following a screenplay written by Samuel Hoffenstein and Elizabeth Reinhardt based on the 1944 novel by Margery Sharp. The music score is by Cyril J. Mockridge. The film is a satire on the smugness of British high society and the last film Lubitsch completed before his death in 1947. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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