Cluny Brown is a 1946 American romantic comedy film made by Twentieth Century-Fox starring Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones.
It was directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch following a screenplay written by Samuel Hoffenstein and Elizabeth Reinhardt based on the 1944 novel by Margery Sharp.
In 1938 London Cluny Brown meets Adam Belinski while she is fixing a plumbing issue at Mr. Ames's, and the two strike a chord.
Later, at a party at Ames's, the self-obsessed Betty Cream is pursued by two young men: Andrew Carmel and John Frewen.
Andrew offers Belinski a place to stay at his family's residence outside London, before he leaves for the city.
Brown's uncle (also her guardian), disapproving of her unladylike behavior, sends her to work as the parlor maid for Andrew's family (headed by Sir Henry and Lady Carmel), much to her displeasure.
A New York Times review in 1946 called the film a "delectable and sprightly lampoon" and "among the year's most delightful comedies".
[2] A reviewer for Variety wrote "Cluny Brown is in the best Lubitsch tradition of subtle, punchy comedy, and his two stars make the most of it.