Servants' Entrance
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| Directed by |
Frank Lloyd Walt Disney |
| Written by |
Sigrid Boo (novel) Samson Raphaelson |
| Starring |
Janet Gaynor Lew Ayres Ned Sparks Walter Connolly Louise Dresser |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
Release dates |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Servants' Entrance (1934) is a musical comedy movie starring Janet Gaynor. The movie was written by Samson Raphaelson from the Sigrid Boo novel and directed by Frank Lloyd, with a cartoon sequence by Walt Disney in which an understandably startled Gaynor sings a song while obstreperous animated singing silverware prance around on her bed, an early example of combining live action with animation. Critics found this musical interlude especially charming.
This film was adapted from Sigrid Boo's 1930 Norwegian novel Vi som går kjøkkenveien ("We Who Enter Through the Kitchen") which has an almost identical plot to Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd's popular 1917 novel How Could You, Jean? Brainerd's novel had already been adapted into the film How Could You Jean? (1918), directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Mary Pickford. Servants' Entrance plot was strikingly identical to that of the earlier film; as the New York Times commented, "apparently, the old Pickford comedy was already forgotten, and no copyright infringement suit was filed."[1]
Cast
- Janet Gaynor as Hedda Nilsson/Helga Brand
- Lew Ayres as Erik Langstrom
- Ned Sparks as Hjalmar Gnu
- Walter Connolly as Viktor Nilsson
- Louise Dresser as Mrs. Hanson
- G. P. Huntley as Karl Berghoff
- Astrid Allwyn as Sigrid Hanson
- Sig Ruman as Hans Hansen
- John Qualen as Detective
- Catherine Doucet as Anastasia Gnu
References
- ↑ "How Could You, Jean? (1918)". New York Times. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
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