The Butler
Film · 132 min · English · 2013
Directed by Lee Daniels
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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- Catalogued entity (metadata)
- Follow Through Productions
- Country of origin
- United States
- Catalogued
- 2026-09-27
- Registry ID
- MRR-2013-FLM-907214
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