Directed by:
Irving CummingsScreenplay:
Barry TriversCinematography:
Joseph WalkerComposer:
John LeipoldCast:
Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Willard Parker, Alan Dinehart, Edward Fielding, Ann Savage, Norma Varden, Hobart Cavanaugh, Shelley Winters, Bess Flowers (more)Plots(1)
Carol Ainsley has been nominated for Outstanding Career Woman of the Year. The New York agent has sold the film rights to bestselling romance novel “Whirlwind” to Hollywood. Now all she needs to do is find somebody to play the hero. Her first choice is the book’s author, a dyed-in-the-tweed college professor, but he proves both unwilling and lacking aptitude. When she demonstratively kisses him, however, it awakens unimagined talents in him and, for Carol, unwitting feelings. Meanwhile, star reporter Henry Pepper, who is writing a profile of Carol, follows her predicament with delight. He has ulterior motives for goading the two towards romance … After sporting business suits designed by star costumers such as Adrian and Irene that were not always suited for “everyday wear”, Rosalind Russell appears here for the first time clothed by Carole Lombard’s favored costume designer Travis Banton, who dressed her as a culture sector professional, showing off an unusually glamorous side of Russell. Also unusual for the age was the film’s take on career women. Shot during the war, it recognizes their accomplishments in a comedy in which, in the end, even marriage is a business proposition. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Rosalind Russell
USA
Best movies:
The Citadel (1938)
His Girl Friday (1940)
China Seas (1935)
Brian Aherne
UK
Best movies:
Juarez (1939)
Underground (1928)
I Confess (1953)
Willard Parker
USA
Best movies:
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Kiss Me Kate (1953)
That Certain Woman (1937)
Alan Dinehart
USA
Best movies:
Born to Dance (1936)
Edward Fielding
USA
Best movies:
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Rebecca (1940)
Madame Curie (1943)
Ann Savage
USA
Best movies:
Detour (1945)
The More the Merrier (1943)
Fire with Fire (1986)
Norma Varden
UK
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Casablanca (1942)
Hobart Cavanaugh
USA
Best movies:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
The House of Fear (1945)
Shelley Winters
USA
Best movies:
A Patch of Blue (1965)
An Average Little Man (1977)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Bess Flowers
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Irving Bacon
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Byron Foulger
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Russell Hicks
USA
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Pierre Watkin
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Robert B. Williams
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
North by Northwest (1959)
A Patch of Blue (1965)
Isabel Withers
USA
Best movies:
The Lost Weekend (1945)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
To Each His Own (1946)
Edward Earle
Canada
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Ferris Taylor
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Frontier Marshal (1939)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
Ann Shoemaker
USA
Best movies:
Strike Up the Band (1940)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Conflict (1945)
Chester Clute
USA
Best movies:
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)