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- Mirbeau brings a journalist's analytical eye to Celestine's adventures as she loses her innocence and becomes as corrupt and depraved as the men who exploited her. Since its publication in 1900 it has never ceased to shock and fascinate its readers and has been made into a film by Jean Renoir in 1946 and Luis Bunuel in 1964.
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The Diary of a Chambermaid: Directed by Jean Renoir. With Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer. A chambermaid plots to climb the social ladder by marrying a wealthy man.
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- Drama, Romance
- Jean Renoir
- 1946-02-15
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The Diary of a Chambermaid (French: Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) is a 1900 decadent novel by Octave Mirbeau, published during the Dreyfus Affair. First published in serialized form in L’Écho de Paris from 1891 to 1892, Mirbeau’s novel was reworked and polished before appearing in the Dreyfusard journal La Revue Blanche in 1900.
The Diary of a Chambermaid is a 1946 American drama film about a newly hired servant who severely disrupts a wealthy family. The film was based on the 1900 novel of the same name by Octave Mirbeau and the play Le journal d'une femme de Chambre, written by André de Lorde, with André Heuse and Thielly Nores.
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Jun 9, 2016 · This is the third sound-era filming of Octave Mirbeau's once-scandalous 1900 novel, adapted almost blithely by Jean Renoir in 1946 and more grimly by Luis Bunuel in 1964.
The novel presents itself as the diary of Mademoiselle Célestine R., a chambermaid. Her first employer fetishizes her boots, and she later discovers the elderly man dead, with one of her boots...
