Cecil Gaines, who has been serving presidents in the White House since the late 1950’s, was fired by Donald Trump yesterday for disobedience. “I was shocked, to be honest,” said the 78-year ...

“Lee Daniels’ The Butler” follows the life of Cecil Gaines, an African-American butler who serves in the White House under eight presidencies. Inspired by real-life butler Eugene ...

Of course, most of “The Butler”—the director Lee Daniels’s story of the White House service-staff member Cecil Gaines (liberally reimagined from the life story of Ernest Allen)—takes ...

The Emmy-winning writer of the summer hit says the character of Cecil Gaines was "inspired by" Eugene Allen but not adapted from an article about his life. By Scott Feinberg At The Hollywood ...

USA TODAY review%3A *** out of four Stars%3A Forest Whitaker%2C Oprah Winfrey%2C John Cusack%2C Mariah Carey%2C Vanessa Redgrave%2C Cuba Gooding Jr.%2C Robin Williams Rated PG-13%3B runtime%3A 2 ...

Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which opens Friday, is loosely based on the life of Eugene Allen, a butler at the White House for 34 years and through eight administrations. So loosely based, in fact ...

Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel ...

With one hand gesture, Lee Daniels makes it very clear what he thinks about the title of his new film, “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” (He isn’t fond of it.) The title is a compromise forced on ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. CECIL GAINES: [played by Forest Whitaker] No, sir. FREDDIE FALLOWS: Good. We have no tolerance for politics at the White House.

The finished film, though, is about a composite White House butler named Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker). At its core is a decades-long father-son conflict that’s all made up. The movie succeeds ...