La soeur de son valet

Original title: His Butler's Sister

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Deanna Durbin, Pat O'Brien, Akim Tamiroff, and Franchot Tone in La soeur de son valet (1943)

A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career.A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career.A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career.

Director
- Frank Borzage
Writers
- Samuel Hoffenstein
- Elizabeth Reinhardt
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7.0/10

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Director
- Frank Borzage
Writers
- Samuel Hoffenstein
- Elizabeth Reinhardt
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 wins & 1 nomination total

Trivia
Originally slated for Carole Lombard under the title "My Girl Godfrey".

Goofs
When Anne is walking with her new friends, the butlers, toward the apartment house you can see the reflection of the crew/camera on the side of a car in the street.

Quotes
Mortimer Kalb: [to Ann] You know, the minute I laid eyes on you I says to myself - Mort, there's a little lady that ain't gonna be wrestlin' with that broom much longer.

Crazy credits
The foods, drinks, clothes, shoes, rubber, gas and other articles consumed or used in this picture are purely imaginary and have no relation to any actual foods, drinks, clothes, shoes, rubber, gas and other articles of today, rationed or unrationed. Any resemblance is purely accidental. This is a fable of the day before yesterday.

Soundtracks
Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
(uncredited)
Written by Irving Caesar, Samuel Lerner and Gerald Marks
Sung by Iris Adrian and Robin Raymond

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Horrible Film

I am a lover of all old movies especially musicals, and I find this to be the absolute worst I've seen. I do enjoy Judy Garland, so that may be partially why I don't like Durbin's style. She doesn't seem to have the sparkle of any of the great musical stars such as Alice Faye or Kathryn Grayson. She is very beautiful, but I think she should have been a chorus girl, or a musical specialty. Most movies that I have seen that weren't the greatest still had the leading actress giving a good performance even under the most stupid circumstances.

Now that I've expressed my opinion of the star I can restate much of what others have commented on, the script. In this movie I didn't believe anything. I thought the way Durbin was acting towards her brother was real LOVE, not family love. It was horrible. I'll see another Deanna Durbin film and hopefully I can find something nicer to say about it.