''Service for Ladies'' is a 1927 American silent

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directed by

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and written by Benjamin Glazer,

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, and Ernest Vajda. Starring Adolphe Menjou,

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, Charles Lane,

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, André Cheron, James A. Marcus and Nicholas Soussanin, it was released on April 6, 1927, by

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. It was

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in 1932, directed by Alexander Korda and starring Leslie Howard and

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Cast

* Adolphe Menjou as Albert Leroux *

as Elizabeth Foster * Charles Lane as Robert Foster *

as King Boris * André Cheron as Rajah * James A. Marcus as The head * Nicholas Soussanin as Waiter with heart ache

Preservation

With no prints of ''Service for Ladies'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film.''Service for Ladies'' at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: ''Lost Paramount films – 1927''
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References

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* * 1927 films 1920s English-language films Silent American comedy films 1927 comedy films Paramount Pictures films American black-and-white films Films set in hotels Films set in restaurants Lost American comedy films American silent feature films 1927 lost films Films directed by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast 1920s American films {{1920s-comedy-film-stub