Personal Services Personal Services Personal Services is a 1987 British comedy film directed by Terry Jones and written by David Leland. It is the story of the rise of a madam of a suburban brothel which caters to older men. The story is inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne, the legendary "House of Cyn" madam. Christine Painter (Julie Walters) is a sexually naive waitress and single-mother who pays for her teenage son's tuition by renting flats to local call girls. She later becomes a call girl herself – joining her friend Shirley (Shirley Stelfox) and their "maid" Dolly (Danny Schiller)
What Do Men Want? titles with Weber, Paramount declined to distribute "What Do Men Want?", possibly due to its subject matter involving an unwed mother and suicide. As part of the deal to distribute Weber's film "The Blot" (1921), F.B. Warren also released "What Do Men Want?" After the film's premiere at Manhattan's Lyric Theatre on November 13, 1921, "The New York Times", while praising Weber for her casting and the technical aspects of the film, and also the performance of Claire Windsor, dismissed the film as a "simplified sermon" that provided "pat answers" which ignored "the real facts of life", which it considers