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The Diary of a Chambermaid is a 1946 American drama film about a newly hired servant who severely disrupts a wealthy family. The film was based on the 1900 novel of the same name by Octave Mirbeau and the play Le journal d'une femme de Chambre, written by André de Lorde, with André Heuse and Thielly Nores.
The Diary of a Chambermaid: Directed by Jean Renoir. With Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer. A chambermaid plots to climb the social ladder by marrying a wealthy man.
- (1.5K)
- Drama, Romance
- Jean Renoir
- 1946-02-15
In France in the late 1920s, Célestine, a stylish and attractive young chambermaid from Paris, arrives at a provincial estate and joins a household staff that includes a cook, a timid maid named Marianne, and Joseph, the groom, who spends his evenings writing nationalisic, anti-Semitic leaflets with a friend.
Synopsis. Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph.
- (1.1K)
- Benedict Bogeaus Production
- Jean Renoir
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph.
Jeanne Moreau is Celestine, a beautiful Parisian domestic who, upon arrival at her new job at an estate in provincial 1930s France, entrenches herself in sexual hypocrisy and scandal with her philandering employer (Buñuel regular Michel Piccoli).
The Diary of a Chambermaid was the penultimate film made by French director Jean Renoir during his stint in Hollywood in the 1940s, a satisfying blend of farce and melodrama which is widely regarded as one of his best English-language films.
