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Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.
- 6.5
- 1941
- Released
- 1h 31m
Ida Lupino
Ellen Creed
Louis Hayward
Albert Feather
Evelyn Keyes
Lucy
Elsa Lanchester
Emily Creed
Edith Barrett
Louisa Creed
Isobel Elsom
Leonora Fiske
Emma Dunn
Sister Theresa
Queenie Leonard
Sister Agatha
Clyde Cook
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- #film noir
- #housekeeper
- #gothic
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"Leonora Fiske" (Isobel Elsom) is a retired actress, a kindly soul, who lives in a remote cottage with her companion "Ellen" (Ida Lupino) and her maid. When "Ellen" asks if she might bring her sisters down to stay for a few days, they cause chaos to the old lady's normally ordered life and she asks them all to leave. Lupino has other ideas and is soon running the house as "Fiske" has "gone away".
As queer as mice in a cage. Ladies in Retirement is directed by Charles Vidor and adapted to screenplay by Garrett Ford from the Reginald Denham and Edward Percy play of the same name. It stars Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Edith Barrett and Isobel Elsom. Music is by Ernst Toch and cinematography by George Barnes. A housekeeper takes drastic action when the head o