Meet Daisy Bufford. She was in 28 movies from 1927 to 1944, including Gone With the Wind and Cabin in the Sky, and played eleven maids. Here she is in Naughty But Nice (1939), with Ann Sheridan.
Her main function in the story is to bring heavily spiked drinks to Dick Powell, and express astonishment when he sucks them down like lemonade, which is what he thinks they are.
Extreme astonishment. To be fair, she is not the only person in the film who displays, through facial expression, extreme astonishment at that character's drinking habits.
Here she is in a non-maid role in Nobody's Baby (1937) a B comedy starring Patsy Kelly. She is informing Robert Armstrong that she is not the woman in a taxicab that he is looking for. The fact that she is black was meant to add comic effect to the mistaken identity.
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