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

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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7/10

His Butler's Sister is a mostly enjoyable, musically and comically, Deanna Durbin vehicle

As someone who's not a fan of opera, I actually find Deanna Durbin enjoyable having liked her previously in Can't Help Singing among a few of her other movies I can't remember by title right now and in her debut with Judy Garland in the short Every Sunday. In addition to her singing voice on many tunes like "Nessun Dorma" at the end, Ms. Durbin also displays some wonderful humorous touches that matches the veteran comic supporting cast of male butlers that follow her around. I was even enjoying the not-too-compelling-story at least until Franchot Tone-whose character was seeing another woman-seemed to be starting an affair with Deanna. Ms. Durbin isn't the only one who performs, however, since in the beginning when we first see Tone's songwriter character, a couple of women who call themselves the Sunshine Twins (one of whom is Iris Adrian who I knew as the landlady in That Darn Cat-Hayley Mills version) do a funny number called "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?" in front of him. So musically and comically, His Butler's Sister was a mostly enjoyable Durbin vehicle.