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- Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself.
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Aug 8, 2013 · Lee Daniels directs Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey who portray husband and wife Cecil and Gloria Gaines. The movie is based on real-life White House butler Eugene Allen, who worked in the White House under eight presidents, coming of age during segregation and living to see a black man be elected to the White House.
In the movie, Cecil Gaines grows up on a cotton field in Macon, Ga., where his family comes into conflict with the white farmers for whom they work. What befalls his parents on the cotton field...
Plot. In 2009, an elderly Cecil Gaines recounts his life story while waiting at the White House to meet the newly inaugurated president. Born and raised on a cotton plantation in Macon, Georgia to sharecroppers, in 1926 when he was seven, the owner rapes his mother Hattie; his father, Earl, confronts him and is killed.
Aug 15, 2013 · But the names have been changed: Allen and his wife, Helene, are called Cecil and Gloria Gaines. (They’re played by Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey.) At least one key character, Cecil’s...
In The Butler, Whitaker’s Cecil Gaines is a slightly fictionalized version of Allen, one whose story—though very close to Allen’s own—plays better as the stylistic, sweeping melodrama the film...
Aug 16, 2013 · The Butler: Directed by Lee Daniels. With Forest Whitaker, David Banner, Michael Rainey Jr., LaJessie Smith. As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.
Aug 5, 2022 · There are several obvious dissimilarities between the fictional life of Cecil Gaines and the real life of Eugene Allen. The film shows that Gaines grew up on a cotton plantation in Macon, Georgia, whereas Allen was born and brought up in Virginia.
