He seeks tolerance for a lovelorn housemaid left with a war baby, lashes a war profiteer who forces his attentions on her, agitates the lady of the manor hitherto accustomed to .
Basically, all that happens in the movie is that Vermeer (Firth) entices his pretty, largely silent new housemaid (Johansson) into posing for the eponymous painting, while his .
Late one night last July, testified the housemaid, she heard screams near the Finch garage.
A dust-up over Latina roles in 'Devious Maids' In adapting the new Lifetime series about housemaids in Beverly Hills, Marc Cherry was worried about a backlash about perceived stereotypes. Eva Longoria of 'Desperate Housewives' supported him in his project.
June 8, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
Maid is theft suspect A local housemaid found herself in a dirty spot after police arrested her for allegedly taking $1,500 and a gold necklace from a Northwest Laredo home.
June 7, 2013 - Laredo Morning Times
Margaret Thatcher in guardian.co.uk In her memoirs, Thatcher recalled that when she sacked Lord Soames he gave her the feeling he had been "dismissed by the housemaid".
Stephen Frears in Scotsman It was a tiny little story about a housemaid that got inflated into a big film,Frears said later.
Eduardo Faleiro in Hindustan Times Many of the local people appear to consider a housemaid as a commodity to be used and abused at will. As a result, Pakistan has banned the export of maids a long time ago. Nepal banned it six years ago,Faleiro noted.