Service Entrance (1954 film)

Escalier de service
Directed by	Carlo Rim
Written by	Carlo Rim Jean Le Vitte
Produced by	Alain Poiré Paul Wagner
Starring	Etchika Choureau Danielle Darrieux Robert Lamoureux
Cinematography	Robert Juillard
Edited by	Monique Isnardon Robert Isnardon
Music by	Georges Van Parys
Production companies	Films Paul Wagner Gaumont
Distributed by	Gaumont
Release date	16 August 1954 (1954-08-16)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Service Entrance (French: Escalier de service) is a 1954 French comedy drama film directed and written by Carlo Rim and starring Etchika Choureau, Danielle Darrieux and Robert Lamoureux.^[1][2] It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and at the Louvre Museum. The film's sets were designed by the art director Serge Piménoff.

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.^[3]

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
• Alfred Adam as Le cousin Albert
• Junie Astor as Aline Béchard
• Louis de Funès as Cesare Grimaldi, the father, Italian artist
• Marc Cassot as Benvenuto Grimaldi, the son, brilliant painter
• Anne Caprile [fr] as Carlotta Grimaldi, the daughter, prostitute
• Andréa Parisy as the second girl Grimaldi
• Marthe Mercadier as Hortense Van de Putte
• Héléna Manson as Madame Delecluze
• Jacques Morel as Georges Dumény
• Yves Robert as Courbessac
• Jean-Marc Thibault as Léopold dit Léo
• 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
• Claude Sylvain as Une copine de Léo
• Estella Blain as Une copine de Léo

References

1. Service Entrance at IMDb
2. The A to Z of French Cinema p.116
3. "Service Entrance (1954) - Plot Summary". IMDb. Amazon. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

Bibliography

• Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen . The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

• Service Entrance at IMDb
• Escalier de service (1954) at the Films de France