The Girl Downstairs (film)
1938 film by Norman Taurog
- 23 December 1938 (1938-12-23)
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The Girl Downstairs is a 1938 American romantic-comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Franciska Gaal, Franchot Tone and Walter Connolly. It is a remake of the 1936 Austrian film Catherine the Last, directed by Henry Koster, which had been a major hit for Gaal.
This was Franciska Gaal's third appearance in American films, and her first for MGM. It was her final American film before her return to Hungary in 1940.[1]
Plot
Wealthy playboy Paul Wagner wants to romance Rosalind Brown, but her father does not allow it, so Paul uses a maid to get access to Rosalind, however the maid falls in love with him.
Main cast
- Franciska Gaal as Katerina Linz
- Franchot Tone as Paul Wagner
- Walter Connolly as Mr. Brown
- Reginald Gardiner as Willie
- Rita Johnson as Rosalind Brown
- Reginald Owen as Charlie Grump
- Franklin Pangborn as Adolf Pumpfel
- Robert Coote as Karl, Paul's Butler
- Barnett Parker as Hugo, the Butler
- James B. Carson as Rudolph
- Billy Gilbert as Garage Proprietor
References
- ^ "AFI|Catalog".
External links
- The Girl Downstairs at IMDb
- The Girl Downstairs at AllMovie
- The Girl Downstairs at the TCM Movie Database
- The Girl Downstairs at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Films directed by Norman Taurog
- Lucky Boy (1929)
- The Diplomats (1929)
- In Holland (1929)
- The Medicine Men (1929)
- Troopers Three (1930)
- Sunny Skies (1930)
- Hot Curves (1930)
- Follow the Leader (1930)
- Finn and Hattie (1931)
- Skippy (1931)
- Forbidden Adventure (1931)
- Huckleberry Finn (1931)
- Sooky (1931)
- Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
- The Phantom President (1932)
- If I Had a Million (segments "Prologue" and "Epilogue", 1932)
- A Bedtime Story (1933)
- The Way to Love (1933)
- We're Not Dressing (1934)
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
- College Rhythm (1934)
- The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1936)
- Strike Me Pink (1936)
- Rhythm on the Range (1936)
- Reunion (1936)
- Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
- You Can't Have Everything (1937)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
- Mad About Music (1938)
- Boys Town (1938)
- The Girl Downstairs (1938)
- Lucky Night (1939)
- Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
- Young Tom Edison (1940)
- Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
- Men of Boys Town (1941)
- Design for Scandal (1941)
- Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)
- A Yank at Eton (1942)
- Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
- Girl Crazy (1943)
- The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
- The Beginning or the End (1947)
- The Bride Goes Wild (1948)
- Big City (1948)
- Words and Music (1948)
- That Midnight Kiss (1949)
- Please Believe Me (1950)
- The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
- Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
- Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)
- Room for One More (1952)
- Jumping Jacks (1952)
- The Stooge (1953)
- The Stars Are Singing (1953)
- The Caddy (1953)
- Living It Up (1954)
- You're Never Too Young (1954)
- The Birds and the Bees (1956)
- Pardners (1956)
- Bundle of Joy (1956)
- The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1958)
- Onionhead (1958)
- Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)
- Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
- G.I. Blues (1960)
- All Hands on Deck (1961)
- Blue Hawaii (1961)
- Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
- It Happened at the World's Fair (1962)
- Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
- Tickle Me (1965)
- Sergeant Deadhead (1965)
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
- Spinout (1966)
- Double Trouble (1967)
- Speedway (1968)
- Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
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