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Upstairs and Downstairs (1960)
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A humorous, sometimes absurd and sometimes just light-hearted comedy, this story sets up the premise of a couple's search for a housemaid, with a series of impossible women providing the hilarity. When Richard and Kate (
Michael Craig
and
Anne Heywood
) return from their honeymoon, they discover that Kate's father has given them a maid as a wedding gift. The trouble is that the maid has a good portion of the U.S. Navy in the house when they arrive, in a more-or-less wild orgy. Exit maid. The couple then hire Rosemary (
Joan Hickson
) who tipples to excess, making her service at a dinner party an insurmountable challenge. Exit Rosemary. Enter Blodwen (
Joan Sims
) a homesick woman from Wales who cannot live outside her native environment. Exit Blodwen. And so it goes, even through a gorgeous French maid (Mylene Demongeot) who causes more than a mild uproar among the couple's friends. It seems the help is either too bad or too good. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Cast
Reginald Beckwith
Parson
Jeremy Burnham
Frank
Jean Cadell
1st Old Lady
Claudia Cardinale
Maria
Cyril Chamberlain
Guard
Michael Craig
Richard Barry
Mylène Demongeot
Ingrid Gunnar
Barbara Everest
2nd Old Lady
Margalo Gillmore
Mrs. McGuffey
Irene Handl
Large Woman
Anne Heywood
Kate Barry
Joan Hickson
Rosemary
Sidney James
Police Constable Edwards
Dilys Laye
Agency Girl
Daniel Massey
Wesley Cotes
William Mervyn
Kingsley
Nora Nicholson
Mrs. Edith Farringdon
Nicholas Parsons
Brian
Eric Pohlmann
Mario
Madge Ryan
Policewoman
Joan Sims
Blodwen
Barbara Steele
Mary
Joseph Tomelty
Arthur Farringdon
Austin Willis
McGuffey
Nicholas Phipps
Harry
Betty Henderson
Bridget
Production Crew
Ronald Scott Thorn
Book Author
Ernest W. Steward
Cinematographer
Philip Green
Composer (Music Score)
Joan Ellacott
Costume Designer
Ralph Thomas
Director
Alfred Roome
Editor
Betty E. Box
Producer
Frank Harvey Jr.
Screenwriter
Year: 1960
Runtime: 100
Country: UK
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature
Genre
Comedy
Drama
Color type
De Luxe
Produced by
20th Century Fox
J. Arthur Rank Productions
Release
by 20th Century Fox
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