Escalier de service

Escalier de service English: Service Entrance, is a French comedy drama film from 1954, directed and written by Carlo Rim, starring Etchika Choureau and Louis de Funès.

Synopsis

Walking alone and looking desperate, young Marie-Lou (Etchika Choureau) is taken in hand by Léo, a street photographer and his squatter friends. They all want to know what happened to her, so to satisfy their curiosity, Marie-Lou starts recounting her unfortunate experiences as a housemaid. On account of adverse circumstances, she tells them, she lost all of the jobs she had in five different families. To crown it all, the young man she has fallen in love with, a brilliant artist, is in prison...

Cast

Etchika Choureau as Marie-Lou

Danielle Darrieux as Béatrice Berthier

Robert Lamoureux as François Berthier

Sophie Desmarets as Madame Dumény

Jean Richard as Jules Béchard

Saturnin Fabre as Monsieur Delecluze

Mischa Auer as Nicolas Pouchkoff

Louis de Funès as Cesare Grimaldi, the father, Italian artist

Marc Cassot as Benvenuto Grimaldi, the son, brilliant painter

Anne Caprile as Carlotta Grimaldi, the daughter, prostitute

Andréa Parisy as the second girl Grimaldi

Marthe Mercadier as Hortense Van de Putte

Anne Roudier as Madame Grimaldi

Albert Michel as the sexton, friend of "Grimaldi"

Fernand Sardou as Scarfatti, the conservative of du Louvre

Claire Gérard as Victorine, the mechanical street-sweeper of Louvre

René Hell as a sexton

Sylvain Levignac as a guest in engagements

Palmyre Levasseur as a guest in engagements

Rudy Lenoir as inspector

René Lefebvre-Bel as a restaurateur of pictures

References

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