What a Woman
She started the world's greatest MAN-Hunt... AND what she got was too HOT to HANDLE
1943 | 94m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Irving Cummings |
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| Writer: | Barry Trivers, Therese Lewis, Erik Charell |
| Staring: |
| An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book. | |
| Release Date: | Dec 29, 1943 |
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| Director: | Irving Cummings |
| Writer: | Barry Trivers, Therese Lewis, Erik Charell |
| Genres: | Comedy, Romance |
| Keywords | university |
| Production Companies | Columbia Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 29, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Rosalind Russell | Carol Ainsley |
| Brian Aherne | Henry Pepper |
| Willard Parker | Prof. Michael 'Mike' Cobb |
| Alan Dinehart | Pat O'Shea |
| Edward Fielding | Sen. Howard Ainsley |
| Ann Savage | Jane Hughes |
| Norma Varden | Miss Timmons |
| Douglas Wood | Dean Alfred B. Shaeffer |
| Grady Sutton | Mr. Clark |
| Hobart Cavanaugh | Mailman (uncredited) |
| Chester Clute | Dormitory Clerk (uncredited) |
| Frank Dawson | Ben (uncredited) |
| Bess Flowers | Miss Dawson (uncredited) |
| Byron Foulger | Buxton Hotel Clerk (uncredited) |
| Gertrude Hoffmann | Night Maid (uncredited) |
| Lilyan Irene | Minna (uncredited) |
| Ann Shoemaker | Senator's Wife (uncredited) |
| Nella Walker | Senator's Wife (uncredited) |
| Shelley Winters | Secretary (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Irving Cummings | Director |
| Van Nest Polglase | Art Direction |
| John Leipold | Original Music Composer |
| Al Clark | Editor |
| Joseph Walker | Director of Photography |
| Lionel Banks | Art Direction |
| William Kiernan | Set Decoration |
| Barry Trivers | Screenplay |
| Therese Lewis | Screenplay |
| Erik Charell | Original Story |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Irving Cummings | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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Rosalind Russell is on super form here as "Carol", a literary agent seeking the ideal male actor for a part in her latest acquisition. After searching high and low, she decides that the best man to play the role is the man who wrote it - a rather shy and retiring, though handsome, college professor ... "Cobb" (Willard Parker). Whilst being pursued for an interview by the persistent "Pepper" (Brian Aherne), she has to use all her wiles and guile to convict the former to take the part and keep the latter at bay. The plot develops along pretty familiar lines, and towards the end sinks a little too much into farce for me, but the star delivers her quick-fire script with confidence and style; Parker is quite effective as the hapless academic and Aherne has a knowingly smug look on his face for much of the latter part of the film as the inevitable romance develops. It's not a great film, but there are strong characterful performances and it flies by for 90 minutes.