Twentieth Century-Fox
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Jennifer Jones is a ditzy young girl who is sent away by her father to be the maid at a luxurious mansion in the British countryside. In a miraculous coincidence it also happens to be the house where exiled professor Charles Boyer is staying, who just a week earlier had gotten her drunk in London. Jones breaks all the social rules for maids, like talking to the lords of the manor at dinner and fixing the plumbing. She thinks she falls in love with the local chemist, a middle aged man living with his mother. Really, though, it's Boyer, also at least twice her age, that she is in love with. There is no one to root for in a film filled with dumb, unlikeable characters and stereotypes.
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