History Film / ClunyBrown

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[[caption-width-right:350:The sophisticated professor or the StiffUpperLip?]]

* SweaterGirl: Creator/HelenWalker (Betty) wears some very very tight sweaters.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* ShesGotLegs: Hilary and Adam find this out when amateur plumber Cluny hikes up her skirt and peels off her stockings before attacking Hilary's clogged sink.
--> '''Adam''': You see, she's not dressed for plumbing. But what woman is?

The film set in England in 1938, just before the war. Cluny Brown (Creator/JenniferJones) is a wannabe plumber who doesn’t know her place in society. She meets Adam Belinski (Creator/CharlesBoyer), a mooching exiled professor, and they form a friendship. Both find themselves in a country estate, Cluny as a maid and Boyer invited as a guest of Andrew Carmel (Peter Lawford). HilarityEnsues as Cluny makes plans to marry a boring pharmacist, Jonathan Wilson, a union which Adam tries to stop.

''Cluny Brown'' (1946) is a comedy directed by Creator/ErnstLubitsch. It’s based on the book by Margery Sharp by the same name.

The film set in England in 1938, just before the war. Cluny Brown (Creator/JenniferJones) is a wannabe plumber who doesn’t know her place in society. She meets Adam Belinski (Creator/CharlesBoyer), a mooching exiled professor, and they form a friendship. Both find themselves in a country estate, Cluny as a maid and Boyer invited as a guest of Andrew Carmel (Peter Lawford). HilarityEnsues as Cluny tries to marry a boring pharmacist, Jonathan Wilson, which Adam tries to stop.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Cluny and Adam’s conversation about "banging" taken out of context for the servants.

* SweaterGirl: Helen Walker (Betty) wears some very very tight sweaters.

The film set in England in 1938, just before the war. Cluny Brown (Creator/JenniferJones) is a wannabe plumber who doesn’t know her place in society. She meets Adam Belinski (Creator/CharlesBoyer), a mooching exiled professor, and they form a friendship. Both find themselves in a country estate, Cluny as a maid and Boyer invited as a guest of Andrew Carmel (Peter Lawford). HijinksEnsue as Cluny tries to marry a boring pharmacist, Jonathan Wilson, which Adam tries to stop.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Cluny and Adam’s conversion about "banging" taken out of context for the servants.

* UpperClassTwit: Sir Henry Carmel, Andrew’s father.

* WrenchWench: Cluny, who's pretty good with clogged plumbing.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Cluny is obsession with plumbing and is totally oblivious to social class.

* HappilyMarried: Adam convinced Cluny to marry him instead of the [[StiffUpperLip Jonathan]].

* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Adam and Cluny promise to just stay friends.

* MommasBoy: The pharmacist is under the thumb of his mother so much so that when she disapproves of Cluny’s plumbing, he dumps her immediately.

The film is about Cluny Brown (Creator/JenniferJones), a wannabe plumber who doesn’t know her place in society. She meets Adam Belinski (Creator/CharlesBoyer), a mooching exiled professor, and they form a friendship. Both find themselves in a country estate, Cluny as a maid and Boyer invited as a guest of Andrew Carmel (Peter Lawford). HijinksEnsue as Cluny tries to marry a boring pharmacist, Jonathan Wilson, which Adam tries to stop.

* UpperClassTwit: Sir Henry Carmel, Andrew’s father.

''Cluny Brown'' (1946) is a comedy that was Creator/ErnstLubitsch’s last completed film before his death in 1947. It’s based on the book by Margery Sharp by the same name.

The film is about Cluny Brown (Creator/JenniferJones), a wannabe plumber who doesn’t know her place in society. She meets Adam Belinski (Creator/CharlesBoyer), a mooching exiled professor, and they form a friendship. Both find themselves in a country estate, Cluny as a maid and Boyer invited as a guest of Andrew Carmel (Peter Lawford).

HijinksEnsue as Cluny tries to marry a boring pharmacist, Jonathan Wilson, which Adam tries to stop.

The film is about Cluny Brown (Creator/JenniferJones), a wannabe plumber who doesn’t know her place in society. She meets Adam Belinski(Creator/CharlesBoyer), a mooching exiled professor, and they form a friendship. Both find themselves in a country estate, Cluny as a maid and Boyer invited as a guest of Andrew Carmel (Peter Lawford).

The film is about Cluny Brown (Creator/JenniferJones), a wannabe plumber who doesn’t know her place in society, according to her uncle. She meets Adam Belinski (Creator/CharlesBoyer), a mooching exiled professor, and they form a friendship. Both find themselves in a country estate, Cluny as a maid and Boyer invited as a guest of Andrew Carmel (Peter Lawford).

* CantHoldHerLiquor: Cluny as she has one two many champagne glasses.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Cluny and Adam’s conversion about “banging” taken out of context for the servants.
* HappilyMarried: Adam convinced Cluny to marry him instead of the StiffUpperLip of Jonathan.

* LoveTriangle: There’s a small sub-plot of Andrew trying to romance Betty Cream and a friend of his tries to romance as well. They both fail, however.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Cluny’s obsession with plumbing and her total oblivion to social class.
* MistakenForBadass: Andrew thinks Adam has escaped his home country because of German occupation, thinking he’s writing put him in danger with the Nazis. It turns out Adam couldn’t sell his book in his home country so he went to Paris.
* MommasBoy: The pharmacist is under the thumb of his mother so much so that when she disapproves of Cluny’s plumbing, he dumps her.
* MyBelovedSmother: The Wilson’s mother controls him with mere coughs or clearing of her throat, nothing more.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Adam goes into Betty Cream’s room telling her about Andrew but she interprets this as him trying to inappropriately put the moves on her while she’s alone.

* StiffUpperLip: The classism is abundant with the Carmels and even within their own servants.

* DeconfirmedBachelor: Adam.

The film is about Cluny Brown (Creator/JenniferJones), a wannabe plumber who doesn’t know her place in society, according to her uncle. She meets Adam Belinski (Creator/CharlesBoyer), a mooching exiled professor, and they form a friendship. Both find themselves in a country estate, Cluny as a maid and Boyer invited as a guest of Andrew Carmel (Peter Lawford). HijinksEnsue as Cluny tries to marry a boring pharmacist, Jonathan Wilson, which Adam tries to stop.

* CantHoldHerLiquid: Cluny as she has one two many champagne glasses.
* Clouldcookoolander: Cluny has her head in the clouds for the majority of the film.
* DecomfirmedBachelor: Adam.
* GettingCrapPastOfTheRadar: Cluny and Adam’s conversion about “banging” taken out of context for the servants.

* IDontWantToRuinOurFrienship: Adam and Cluny promise to just stay friends.