His Butler's Sister

1943
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1h 27m

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Deanna Durbin, Pat O'Brien, Akim Tamiroff, and Franchot Tone in His Butler's Sister (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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6.9/10

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

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total

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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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The retired Bengal lancer

Coming after the grave "stage door canteen" ,which ,in spite of funny scenes ,dealt about soldiers about to go to war,"his butler's sister" is some kind of comic relief.Deanna Durbin is a very good-looking actress and songstress -even if ,like me,her style is not your cup of tea-and watching Franchot Tone at work is always a joy to me.Anyway they do not appear in what is for me the funniest of the whole movie :girls mistaking a salesman for a composer and discovering that what he sells is not what they were expecting.

The movie features several songs ,the last one being some kind of communication as it was the case in other Borzage works such as "I'll always love you" or " smiling through" ,though in a lighter way.