The first of the three talkie films of this story is based on the play Le journal d'une femme de Chambre, which is in turn based on the 1900 book of the same name. This is the only American version and my least favorite. Even so I like it. As dated as it is there is still plenty about this production that is absorbing. Paulette Goddard plays a gorgeous chambermaid who leaves Paris to work on an estate in small-village fin de siécle France. Everybody falls for her but her hard boss, the woman who owns the estate and runs it with an iron fist. She may not fall for the beauty, but she recognizes that her son probably will and uses her to try and keep him home. It doesn't work and instead Celestine, our darling heroine, destroys madame boss's world.