Directed by:
Henry LevinScreenplay:
Nat PerrinCinematography:
William E. SnyderCast:
Robert Cummings, Joan Caulfield, Elsa Lanchester, Melville Cooper, Audrey Long, Mary Wickes, John Ridgely, Tippi Hedren, Lyn Thomas, Movita, Jean Willes (more)Plots(1)
Back in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, artist George Petty was famous for his "Petty Girl" illustrations; lovingly detailed renderings of ripe young damsels wearing next to nothing, and sometimes not even that. In The Petty Girl, George Petty is portrayed by Robert Cummings, while Joan Caulfield co-stars as strait-laced college professor Victoria Braymore. The plot contrives to have Petty abandon his nubile creations in favor of avant-garde art, all because he's been told to do so by his new patroness (Audrey Long). Somewhere along the way, Petty and the prim Miss Braymore find themselves in a compromising situation at a Greenwich Village nightclub. Thus it is only a matter of time before Petty goes back to the sort of artwork he does best, and Miss Braymore loosens her inhibitions -- and everything else -- to serve as Petty's latest model. Incredibly, this amusing exercise in old-fashioned male chauvinism was based on a story by novelist Mary McCarthy. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Robert Cummings
USA
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Joan Caulfield
USA
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Elsa Lanchester
UK
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Melville Cooper
UK
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Audrey Long
USA
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Mary Wickes
USA
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John Ridgely
USA
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Tippi Hedren
USA
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Lyn Thomas
USA
Movita
USA
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Jean Willes
USA
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Frank Jenks
USA
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James Griffith
USA
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Bess Flowers
USA
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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Russell Hicks
USA
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Pat Flaherty
USA
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Paul Bryar
USA
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Earle Hodgins
USA
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Paul E. Burns
USA
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Sam Harris
Australia
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