Downstairs (1932)
Downstairs (1932)
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Plot.
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.
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Cast & Crew.

John Gilbert
Karl Schneider / Story

Paul Lukas
Albert

Virginia Bruce
Anna

Hedda Hopper
Countess De Marnac

Reginald Owen
Baron 'Nicky' von Burgen

Olga Baclanova
Baroness Eloise von Burgen

Bodil Rosing
Sophie

Otto Hoffman
Otto

Lucien Littlefield
Françoise

Marion Lessing
The Countess' Maid Antoinette

Naomi Childers
Servant (uncredited)

Torben Meyer
Cafe Waiter (uncredited)

Karen Morley
Karl's New Employer (uncredited)

Russ Powell
Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)

Nicholas Soussanin
Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Ellinor Vanderveer
Party Guest (uncredited)
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Details.
This Movie Is About.
butler
wine cellar
blackmail
chauffeur
baroness
swindler
wedding
pre-code
scoundrel
cad
lady's maid
insolence
grape stomping
indiscretion
Wiki.
Downstairs is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film. It stars John Gilbert as a charming but self-serving chauffeur who wreaks havoc on his new employer's household, romancing and fleecing the women on the staff, and blackmailing the employer's wife. Gilbert had written the story in 1928 for a proposed silent film that was never produced.
Producer Irving Thalberg revived the project in 1932 as a special Gilbert production. The actor was so jubilant about the opportunity that he sold his original story to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for only one dollar.
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