(1943) Tags: Universal
Schwarz v. Universal Pictures Co.
This is an action for plagiarism, which the Plaintiff alleges that the defendants used his embryonic scenario of only a page and a half, entitled “His Butler’s Sister.” The idea of a girl gaining admission to a home through the circumstance that her brother was a butler is used as the means of developing a romance between the girl and a successful businessman — was then used to make the film His Butler’s Sister.