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Robin Williams and Nathan Lane are phenomenal and hilarious, but the best performance throughout the film is by Hank Azaria, as Agador, the adorable flaming butler.
The filmmakers left a couple of unresolved things: like did the African American butler, maid, and girlfriend of one of the dead family members, live?
Perhaps the best film ever made, 'Sunset Blvd' follows the story of lonely and struggling writer Joe Gillis (William Holden) who is thrown into a web of romance and feuds with aging silent actress Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) and her creepy butler Max Von Mayerling (Erich Von Stroheim) when he accidentally stumbles across Norma's mansion when he uses her garage for his car so it doesn't get taken.
I mean, a mansion occupied by the likes of Karloff, a strongman, a creepy butler, and an Eastern European maid, should at least get an atmosphere of death, if not an atmosphere of total evil and perversity.
Once in London, she wangles the one thing that she and her gang of thieves (led by William Powell as her butler) have been waiting for - an invitation to Lady Ebley's country home, and a crack at Lady Ebley's fabulous pearl necklace.
He is being run by his manager, who in turn runs the butler and every one else who supposedly takes care of David Niven.
One by one, each guest is involved in a personal crisis and is pulled away from the dinner party from hell, presided over by blustery Reginald Owen as the butler.
There is a dog and also an unfunny butler and maid...all in all a rather talky movie with a lame monster that appears here and there.
A thunderstorm strands the Evers family in the old mansion with the brooding, eccentric Gracey, his mysterious butler, Ramsley, and a variety of residents both seen and unseen.
Terence Stamp plays the butler and does an okay job.
There's also Jester Hairston-later familiar to me as Rolly on "Amen"-as a butler and, in perhaps the most humorous scene, Scatman Crothers as Big Ben, a client that prostitute Billie quits on to go audition at a night club.
He sees a sinister butler (Renato Lupi) with a knife through his neck laughing for no apparent reason.
There was a great sense of brotherhood among the cast members who are all male, John Hillerman who played the butler or owner whatever you want to believe about this true identity was always a great joy to watch.
Inside lives a former aging silent film actress and her butler.
He is Ramsley, the sinister butler of Master Gracey.
Osmond Portifoy(Ossie Davis)has been under employ to the old man for many years and Jeremy relishes in reminding the butler who will be dipping their hands in the money jar.
He had a Bentley and butler, whereas most Dutch politicians make do with a housewife and a bicycle.
The fat butler – his round, clean-shaven face and starched white tie shining – announced dinner.
Dolly, however, knew that not even a milk pudding for the children's lunch comes of itself, and that therefore so complicated and splendid an organization must have needed some one's careful attention; and from the way Vronsky surveyed the table, gave a sign with his head to the butler, and asked her whether she would take fish-broth or soup, she concluded that it had all been done by, and depended on, the master's care.
'P'raps if vun of us wos to brush, without troubling the man, it 'ud be more agreeable for all parties, as the schoolmaster said when the young gentleman objected to being flogged by the butler.''And there's nothing I can send in my little box to the washer- woman's, is there?' said Smangle, turning from Sam to Mr. Pickwick, with an air of some discomfiture.
'A reptile contemporary has recently sweltered forth his black venom in the vain and hopeless attempt of sullying the fair name of our distinguished and excellent representative, the Honourable Mr. Slumkey--that Slumkey whom we, long before he gained his present noble and exalted position, predicted would one day be, as he now is, at once his country's brightest honour, and her proudest boast: alike her bold defender and her honest pride-- our reptile contemporary, we say, has made himself merry, at the expense of a superbly embossed plated coal-scuttle, which has been presented to that glorious man by his enraptured constituents, and towards the purchase of which, the nameless wretch insinuates, the Honourable Mr. Slumkey himself contributed, through a confidential friend of his butler's, more than three-fourths of the whole sum subscribed.
'We are going to send our butler to the sale to-morrow, to pick up some of that sixty-four.''The devil you are!' said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire.
In a fit of anger, however, caused by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital sentence.
It was only after a painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler and the footman.
In spite of his considerable wealth he was simple in his personal tastes, and his indoor servants at Baskerville Hall consisted of a married couple named Barrymore, the husband acting as butler and the wife as housekeeper.
"On the night of Sir Charles's death Barrymore the butler, who made the discovery, sent Perkins the groom on horseback to me, and as I was sitting up late I was able to reach Baskerville Hall within an hour of the event.
Barrymore, Sir Charles's butler, is a man with a full, black beard."
I seemed to discern some signs of emotion upon the butler's white face.
It seemed to me that the pallid features of the butler turned a shade paler still as he listened to his master's question.
And now I pass on to another thread which I have extricated out of the tangled skein, the mystery of the sobs in the night, of the tear-stained face of Mrs. Barrymore, of the secret journey of the butler to the western lattice window.
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