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December 1941 (USA)
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Rosalind RUSSELL - Walter PIDGEON Hilariously together in the year's love-and-laugh hit! See more »
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To save his job, newsman Jeff Sherman offers to help his boss get out of a swingeing alimony settlement...
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Cast
(in credits order) (verified as complete) | Rosalind Russell | ... | Judge Cornelia C. Porter |
 | Walter Pidgeon | ... | Jeff Sherman |
 | Edward Arnold | ... | Judson M. 'J.M.' / 'Judsy' Blair |
 | Lee Bowman | ... | Walter Caldwell |
| Jean Rogers | ... | Dotty |
| Mary Beth Hughes | ... | Adele Blair |
| Guy Kibbee | ... | Judge Graham |
| Barbara Jo Allen | ... | Jane aka Janie |
| Leon Belasco | ... | Alexander Raoul - a sculptor |
| Bobby Larson | ... | Freddie |
| Charles Coleman | ... | Wilton |
| Thurston Hall | ... | Northcott |
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| Ruth Adler | ... | Telephone Operator (uncredited) |
| Richard Bartell | ... | Blair's Aide (uncredited) |
 | Oliver Blake | ... | Real Estate Agent (uncredited) |
| John Butler | ... | Miner (uncredited) |
| Eddy Chandler | ... | Second Arresting Detective (uncredited) |
| George Chandler | ... | First Taxi Driver (uncredited) |
| Marjorie Deanne | ... | Telephone Operator (uncredited) |
| Edgar Dearing | ... | Joe - Foreman (uncredited) |
| John Dilson | ... | Court Clerk (uncredited) |
| Lester Dorr | ... | Court Clerk (uncredited) |
| Eddie Dunn | ... | Eddie Smith (uncredited) |
| Mitchell Ingraham | ... | Bicycle Storekeeper (uncredited) |
| Marjorie Kane | ... | Telephone Operator (uncredited) |
| Robert Emmett Keane | ... | Blair's Aide (uncredited) |
| Milton Kibbee | ... | Court Clerk (uncredited) |
| Charles La Torre | ... | Headwaiter (uncredited) |
| George Magrill | ... | Miner (uncredited) |
| Dorothy Morris | ... | Telephone Operator (uncredited) |
| Lee Phelps | ... | First Arresting Detective (uncredited) |
| Anne Revere | ... | Nettie - Porter's Maid (uncredited) |
| Addison Richards | ... | Adele's Divorce Lawyer (uncredited) |
| Henry Roquemore | ... | Man Who Got a Manicure (uncredited) |
| Syd Saylor | ... | Second Taxi Driver (uncredited) |
| Edward Thomas | ... | Train Steward (uncredited) |
| Charles Trowbridge | ... | Northcott's Aide (uncredited) |
| Morgan Wallace | ... | Man Whose Head is Painted (uncredited) |
| George Watts | ... | Snack Bar Counterman (uncredited) |
| Josephine Whittell | ... | Woman (uncredited) |
| Charlotte Wynters | ... | Thelma, Blair's Secretary (uncredited) |
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| Norman Taurog | |||
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| Lionel Houser | (story) | |
| Lionel Houser | (screenplay) | |
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| John W. Considine Jr. | .... | producer | |
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| Franz Waxman | |||
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| William H. Daniels | (as William Daniels) | ||
| Leonard Smith | |||
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| Elmo Veron | |||
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| Cedric Gibbons | |||
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| Edwin B. Willis | |||
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| Robert Kalloch | (as Kalloch) | ||
Makeup Department | |||
| Sydney Guilaroff | .... | hair stylist: Ms. Russell | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Dolph Zimmer | .... | assistant director (uncredited) | |
Art Department | |||
| Harry McAfee | .... | associate art director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Douglas Shearer | .... | recording director | |
Music Department | |||
| Leo Arnaud | .... | orchestrator (uncredited) | |
| George Bassman | .... | orchestrator (uncredited) | |
| Leonid Raab | .... | orchestrator (uncredited) | |
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- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1941) (USA) (theatrical)
- Loew's
- Warner Home Video (2011) (USA) (DVD) (DVD-R) (widescreen)
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Walter Pidgeon distinguished himself in many films, but Design for Scandal isn't one of them. He is grievously miscast as a womanizing, fast-talking reporter out to besmirch Judge Rosalind Russell's reputation in order to save his boss's. Pidgeon looks uncomfortable much of the time, and delivers most of his lines without conviction or commitment.
Russell, too, gave many memorable performances in both dramas and comedies. Not here. As she so frequently did in the 40s, she panders to Hollywood convention by playing a brittle, sophisticated career woman who finds she needs a man to achieve true happiness. I wonder if many women didn't find that stereotype demeaning, even in 1941.