Escalier de service
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Directed by | Carlo Rim |
Written by | Carlo Rim |
Produced by | S.N.E.G Gaumont - Gaumont Actualité |
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Music by | Georges Van Parys |
Distributed by | Gaumont |
Release date | 16 August 1954 (France) |
Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Escalier de service English: Service Entrance, is a French comedy drama film from 1954, directed and written by Carlo Rim, starring Etchika Choureau and Louis de Funès.[1]
Synopsis[]
Walking alone and looking desperate, young Marie-Lou (Etchika Choureau) is taken in hand by Léo, a street photographer and his squatter friends. They all want to know what happened to her, so to satisfy their curiosity, Marie-Lou starts recounting her unfortunate experiences as a housemaid. On account of adverse circumstances, she tells them, she lost all of the jobs she had in five different families. To crown it all, the young man she has fallen in love with, a brilliant artist, is in prison.[2]
Cast[]
- Etchika Choureau as Marie-Lou
- Danielle Darrieux as Béatrice Berthier
- Robert Lamoureux as François Berthier
- Sophie Desmarets as Madame Dumény
- Jean Richard as Jules Béchard
- Saturnin Fabre as Monsieur Delecluze
- Mischa Auer as Nicolas Pouchkoff
- Louis de Funès as Cesare Grimaldi, the father, Italian artist
- as Benvenuto Grimaldi, the son, brilliant painter
- as Carlotta Grimaldi, the daughter, prostitute
- Andréa Parisy as the second girl Grimaldi
- Marthe Mercadier as Hortense Van de Putte
- as Madame Grimaldi
- Albert Michel as the sexton, friend of "Grimaldi"
- Fernand Sardou as Scarfatti, the conservative of du Louvre
- as Victorine, the mechanical street-sweeper of Louvre
- René Hell as a sexton
- as a guest in engagements
- Palmyre Levasseur as a guest in engagements
- as inspector
- as a restaurateur of pictures
- Claude Sylvain as Une copine de Léo
References[]
- ^ Escalier de service at IMDb
- ^ "Service Entrance (1954) - Plot Summary". IMDb. Amazon. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
External links[]
- Escalier de service at IMDb
- Escalier de service (1954) at the Films de France
Categories:
- French-language films
- 1954 films
- French anthology films
- French comedy-drama films
- 1954 comedy-drama films
- French black-and-white films
- French films
- 1950s French film stubs