# Service de Luxe

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{{short description|1938 film by Rowland V. Lee}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Service de Luxe
| image =File:Service de Luxe.jpg
| caption =
| director = [Rowland V. Lee](/source/Rowland_V._Lee)
| producer = [Edmund Grainger](/source/Edmund_Grainger)
| writer = [Vera Caspary](/source/Vera_Caspary)<br>[Bruce Manning](/source/Bruce_Manning)<br>[Gertrude Purcell](/source/Gertrude_Purcell)<br>[Leonard Spigelgass](/source/Leonard_Spigelgass)
| narrator =
| starring = [Constance Bennett](/source/Constance_Bennett)<br>[Vincent Price](/source/Vincent_Price)<br>[Charles Ruggles](/source/Charles_Ruggles)<br>[Helen Broderick](/source/Helen_Broderick)
| music = [Charles Henderson](/source/Charles_Henderson_(composer))
| cinematography = [George Robinson](/source/George_Robinson_(cinematographer))
| editing = [Ted J. Kent](/source/Ted_J._Kent)
| studio = [Universal Pictures](/source/Universal_Pictures)
| distributor = Universal Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1938|10|12}}
| runtime = 85 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Service de Luxe''''' is a 1938 American [comedy film](/source/comedy_film) directed by [Rowland V. Lee](/source/Rowland_V._Lee) and starring [Constance Bennett](/source/Constance_Bennett), [Vincent Price](/source/Vincent_Price) (in his film debut) and [Charles Ruggles](/source/Charles_Ruggles).<ref>Kellow p.211</ref>

==Plot==
Helen Murphy, alias Dorothy Madison number 1, runs a very successful agency, "Dorothy Madison Services," for wealthy people who need someone to run their lives. A huge staff is up 24 hours a day to attend to all sorts of problems. Her alter ego, Pearl, alias Dorothy Madison 2, is there  to assist Murphy, who dreams of finding a man who is able to run his own life.

Robert Wade, a young inventor from Albany, New York, leaves behind him five old aunts who tried to run his life. He comes to town to develop his tractor model. Murphy and Wade meet on the boat. Murphy is there on orders from Wade's uncle, who is a client of Madison Services, but she picks the wrong man to send back home, while she meets Wade and is instantly fascinated by him, although he thinks she's not a career girl, as well as being rather helpless.

When she discovers that the man she met on the boat was Wade, she has some problems how to manage this relationship. Her client Mr. Robinson is willing to finance Wade's tractor model and arranges a laboratory for him. Unfortunately, his daughter Audrey wants to marry Wade. While her father has adapted a kitchen in his library to be taught how to cook by Bibenko, Audrey tries to be in the basement laboratory with Wade. When it comes out that Bibenko is a Russian prince, Audrey finds he's the better husband-to-be. Wade marries Murphy, who leaves behind her career-girl life to become a wife.

==Cast==
* [Constance Bennett](/source/Constance_Bennett) as Helen Murphy  
* [Vincent Price](/source/Vincent_Price) as Robert Wade 
* [Charles Ruggles](/source/Charles_Ruggles) as Mr. Robinson 
* [Helen Broderick](/source/Helen_Broderick) as Pearl  
* [Mischa Auer](/source/Mischa_Auer) as Bibenko  
* [Joy Hodges](/source/Joy_Hodges) as Audrey Robinson
* [Frances Robinson](/source/Frances_Robinson_(actress)) as Secretary  
* [Halliwell Hobbes](/source/Halliwell_Hobbes) as Butler 
* [Raymond Parker](/source/Raymond_Parker_(actor)) as Bellhop  
* [Frank Coghlan Jr.](/source/Frank_Coghlan_Jr.) as Bellhop  
* [Lawrence Grant](/source/Lawrence_Grant) as Voroshinsky  
* [Nina Gilbert](/source/Nina_Gilbert_(actor)) as Mrs. Devereaux 
* [Crauford Kent](/source/Crauford_Kent) as Mr. Devereaux  
* [Lionel Belmore](/source/Lionel_Belmore) as Robert Wade  (uncle)
* [Chester Clute](/source/Chester_Clute) as Bridegroom 
* [Ben Hall](/source/Ben_Hall_(American_actor)) as Yokel

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Kellow, Brian. ''The Bennetts: An Acting Family''. University Press of Kentucky, 2004. {{ISBN?}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0030732}}

{{Rowland V. Lee}}

Category:1938 films
Category:American comedy films
Category:1938 comedy films
Category:Films directed by Rowland V. Lee
Category:Universal Pictures films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1938 English-language films
Category:1938 American films
Category:English-language comedy films

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