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{{short description|1934 film by Frank Lloyd, Walt Disney}}
{{For|the 1932 Swedish film|Servant's Entrance}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Servants' Entrance
| image          = Gaynor ServantsEntrance.jpg

| caption        =
| director       = [[Frank Lloyd]]
| producer       =
| writer         = [[Sigrid Boo]] (novel)<br>[[Samson Raphaelson]]
| narrator       =
| starring       = [[Janet Gaynor]]<br>[[Lew Ayres]]<br>[[Ned Sparks]]<br>[[Walter Connolly]]<br>[[Louise Dresser]]
| distributor    = [[Fox Film Corporation]]
| released       = {{Film date|1934|09|26}}
| runtime        = 88 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English}}

'''''Servants' Entrance''''' is a 1934 American [[Pre-Code]] [[musical comedy]] film. It was written by [[Samson Raphaelson]] from the [[Sigrid Boo]] novel and directed by [[Frank Lloyd]], with a [[cartoon]] sequence by [[Walt Disney]] in which an understandably startled [[Janet Gaynor]] sings a song while obstreperous animated singing silverware prance around on her bed, an early example of combining live action with [[animation]]. Critics found this musical interlude especially charming.<ref>[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=6618 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:''..Servants' Entrance'']</ref>

This film was adapted from [[Sigrid Boo]]'s 1930 [[Norwegian literature|Norwegian]] [[novel]] ''Vi som går kjøkkenveien'' (''"We Who Enter Through the Kitchen"'') which has an almost identical plot to [[Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd]]'s popular 1917 novel ''How Could You, Jean?'', which had already been adapted into a film [[How Could You, Jean?|of the same name]] in 1918, directed by [[William Desmond Taylor]] and starring [[Mary Pickford]]. ''Servants' Entrance'' plot was strikingly identical to that of the earlier film; as the ''New York Times'' commented, "apparently, the old Pickford comedy was already forgotten, and no copyright infringement suit was filed."<ref name="nyt1">{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/95819/How-Could-You-Jean-/overview?scp=1&sq=%22how%20could%20you%20jean%22&st=cse|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103005918/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/95819/How-Could-You-Jean-/overview?scp=1&sq=%22how%20could%20you%20jean%22&st=cse|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 3, 2012|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Hans J. Wollstein|date=2012|title=How Could You, Jean? (1918)|accessdate=August 18, 2010}}</ref>

An earlier film based on Sigrid Boo's novel was ''[[Servant's Entrance (1932 film)|Servant's Entrance]]'' (1932), directed by [[Gustaf Molander]] in Sweden. The Swedish version starred Tutta Rolf, who became contracted to Fox Film in 1935.

==Cast==
*[[Janet Gaynor]] as Hedda Nilsson/Helga Brand
*[[Lew Ayres]] as Erik Langstrom
*[[Ned Sparks]] as Hjalmar Gnu
*[[Walter Connolly]] as Viktor Nilsson
*[[Louise Dresser]] as Mrs. Hanson
*[[Astrid Allwyn]] as Sigrid Hanson
*[[Sig Ruman]] as Hans Hansen
*[[John Qualen]] as Detective
*[[Catherine Doucet]] as Anastasia Gnu

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{IMDb title|id=0025766|title=Servants' Entrance}}

{{Frank Lloyd}}
{{Samson Raphaelson}}

[[Category:1934 films]]
[[Category:1934 musical comedy films]]
[[Category:Fox Film films]]
[[Category:American black-and-white films]]
[[Category:American films with live action and animation]]
[[Category:American musical comedy films]]
[[Category:American remakes of Swedish films]]
[[Category:1930s English-language films]]
[[Category:Films about maids]]
[[Category:Films based on Norwegian novels]]
[[Category:Films directed by Frank Lloyd]]
[[Category:Films directed by Walt Disney]]
[[Category:1930s American films]]
[[Category:English-language musical comedy films]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Samson Raphaelson]]


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