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Downstairs is a american film of genre Drama directed by Monta Bell released in USA on 6 august 1932 with Paul Lukas

Downstairs (1932)

Downstairs
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Released in USA 6 august 1932
Length 1h17
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating69% 3.495843.495843.495843.495843.49584

Downstairs is a 1932 American Pre-Code dramatic film. It stars John Gilbert as a charming but self-serving chauffeur who wreaks havoc on his new employer's household, romancing and fleecing the women on the staff, and blackmailing the employer's wife. Gilbert had written the story in 1928 for a proposed silent film that was never made.

Producer Irving Thalberg revived the project in 1932 as a special Gilbert production. The actor was so jubilant about the opportunity that he sold his original story to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $1.

Synopsis

The film opens with Baron Von Burgen's (Reginald Owen) head butler Albert (Paul Lukas) marrying the young maid, Anna (Virginia Bruce), on the Baron's Austrian estate. During the ceremony, chauffeur Karl Schneider (John Gilbert) arrives, and soon finds an old acquaintance - a former lover - Countess De Marnac (Hedda Hopper), who appears displeased with Karl mixing with her elite friends. That night, when Françoise (Lucien Littlefield), one of the butlers, gets too drunk too work, Albert is summoned to take over his shift. Anna, now unaccompanied, is visited by Karl, who wins over her sympathy by telling her about his unfortunate childhood.

Actors

Paul Lukas

(Albert)Virginia Bruce

(Anna)John Gilbert

(Karl Schneider)Hedda Hopper

(Countess De Marnac)Reginald Owen

(Baron 'Nicky' von Burgen)
And :
Olga Baclanova
Bodil Rosing
Otto Hoffman
Lucien Littlefield
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