A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her simpy city suitors.

Director:

William A. Seiter

Writers:

Robert Ardrey (screenplay), Jo Swerling (story),

Stars:

Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles Winninger

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jean Arthur	...	Molly J. Truesdale
John Wayne	...	Duke Hudkins
Charles Winninger	...	Waco
Phil Silvers	...	Smiley Lambert
Mary Field	...	Florrie Bendix
Don Costello	...	Drunk
John Philliber	...	Storekeeper
Grady Sutton	...	Malcolm Scott
Jean Stevens	...	'Jitterbug' (as Peggy Carroll)
Grant Withers	...	Bob Hastings
Hans Conried	...	Gregg Stone
Ariel Heath	...	Flossie
Sugar Geise	...	Linda Belle
Joan Blair	...	Lilly
Tom Fadden	...	Mullen

Storyline

A New York bank clerk,Mollie Truesdale (Jean Arthur), in the late 1930s, finds that her cherished dream of making a 17-day all-expenses-paid bus trip to the Pacific Coast and back, isn't all she thought it would be...until she reaches Oregon and a bucking broncho tosses a rodeo performer on top of her and knocks her flat. Duke Hudkins (John Wayne), by way of apology, shows her the sights of Fairfield, Oregon, and she misses her bus, quarrels with the bewildered Duke, hitchhikes across a lot of desert...and a romance is born.

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Plot Keywords:

rodeo | oregon | 1930s | apology | rodeo cowboy | 

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Taglines:

A ROUGH RIDIN' RODEO RIDER who takes the prize on and off the field! (1954 reissue poster)

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance | Western

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

19 August 1943 (USA)

Also Known As:

Cheyenne

Company Credits

Production Co:

Frank Ross Productions, RKO Radio Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Waco: Love is the best thing there is, I guess, but you're barking up the wrong cowboy.

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Connections

Referenced in Hollywood Hist-o-Rama: John Wayne (1961)

User Reviews

Certainly not a perfect couple

This is a movie about two people who are the least likely to couple. Our girl Molly(Jean Arthur) is taking a cross the country bus tour to clear her head of men. Seems she has three of them! They just aren't her type though.

Bring in John Wayne as Duke Hudkins. A good looking rodeo rider that runs into our Molly and thinks she would be a great one night stand. That's what he thinks. She does like him alot. He is after all, a REAL man who is unlike the other men she has met in New York. Seems rodeo men are kind of scarce there. The Duke likes women, ALOT, and has no thought of settling down. That's what he thinks. Now Molly wants him bad. How to hog tie this cowboy is the question.

This movie is cute though with an quite impossible plot, but hey it's Hollywood. Not a classic like "Devil and Miss Jones", "Easy Living" or "More the Merrier", but a good film just the same.