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Service Entrance (1954 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Service Entrance' (French: 'Escalier de service') is a 1954 French comedy drama film directed and written by Carlo Rim and starring Etchika Choureau, Danielle Darrieux and Robert Lamoureux.The A to Z of French Cinema p.116 It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and at the Louvre Museum. The film's sets were designed by the art director Serge Pimnoff.
Synopsis
Walking alone and looking desperate, young Marie-Lou (Etchika Choureau) is taken in hand by Lo, 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.
Cast
* Etchika Choureau as Marie-Lou
* Danielle Darrieux as Batrice Berthier
* Robert Lamoureux as Franois Berthier
* Sophie Desmarets as Madame Dumny
* Jean Richard as Jules Bchard
* Saturnin Fabre as Monsieur Delecluze
* Mischa Auer as Nicolas Pouchkoff
* Alfred Adam as Le cousin Albert
* Junie Astor as Aline Bchard
* Louis de Funs as Cesare Grimaldi, the father, Italian artist
* Marc Cassot as Benvenuto Grimaldi, the son, brilliant painter
* as Carlotta Grimaldi, the daughter, prostitute
* Andra Parisy as the second girl Grimaldi
* Marthe Mercadier as Hortense Van de Putte
* Hlna Manson as Madame Delecluze
* Jacques Morel as Georges Dumny
* Yves Robert as Courbessac
* Jean-Marc Thibault as Lopold dit Lo
* Anne Roudier as Madame Grimaldi
* Albert Michel as the sexton, friend of "Grimaldi"
* Fernand Sardou as Scarfatti, the conservative of du Louvre
* Claire Grard as Victorine, the mechanical street-sweeper of Louvre
* Ren Hell as a sexton
* Sylvain Levignac as a guest in engagements
* Palmyre Levasseur as a guest in engagements
* Rudy Lenoir as inspector
* Ren Lefebvre-Bel as a restaurateur of pictures
* Claude Sylvain as Une copine de Lo
* Estella Blain as Une copine de Lo
References
Bibliography
* Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen . 'The A to Z of French Cinema'. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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