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Aug 8, 2013 · Lee Daniels' The Butler Trailer. 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 ...
Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, the film's main character, who dedicates his life to becoming a professional domestic worker. Michael Rainey Jr. and Aml Ameen portray Cecil at ages 7 and 18. Gaines' private life. Oprah Winfrey as Gloria Gaines, Cecil Gaines' wife. David Oyelowo as Louis Gaines, the Gaines' elder son.
Eugene Charles Allen (July 14, 1919 – March 31, 2010) [2] was an American waiter and butler who worked for the US government at the White House for 34 years until he retired as the head butler in 1986. [3] Allen's life was the inspiration for the 2013 film The Butler. [4]
Daniels’ film replaces the real Eugene Allen with the fictional Cecil Gaines, using the unique perspective of a White House butler as a jumping-off point to explore questions of race in the ...
Aug 15, 2013 · The film The Butler, based on a Washington Post article, tells the story of Cecil Gaines, a black butler who served in the White House for 34 years. However, Cecil is not the real name of Eugene Allen, the historical figure who inspired the movie, and many details of his life have been changed or invented.
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.
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Aug 16, 2013 · 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 ...
