The Diary of a Chambermaid 1946 Celestine Paulette Goddard, the chambermaid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr Lanlaire Reginald Owen is not a right choice the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire Dame Judith Anderson, helped by the strange valet Joseph Francis Lederer Then she tries the neighbor, former officer Mauger Burgess Meredith This seems to work But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back He is young, attractive, and does not share his mothers anti Republican opinions So Celestines beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire Hurd Hatfield, and Joseph Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity Will sinister and inflexible Joseph let his views on Celestine be ruined A quite disillusioned depiction of humanity