"The Butler," which has been marketed as "Lee Daniels' 'The Butler'" for legal purposes, was inspired by the true story of Eugene Allen, a butler who worked for the White House for thirty-four years and retired in 1986 as the head butler after starting out at the bottom as a pantry man. "The Butler" is a 2013 historical film starring Forest Whitaker as African-American butler Cecil Gaines, a fictional character based loosely on Eugene Allen. The film centers around the events witnessed by Cecil Gaines during his thirty-four years as a butler at the White House... ..
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