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Writer:
Charles Martin (written by)
Release Date:
12 January 1949 (USA) more
Tagline:
He chased her . . . 'til she caught him!
Plot:
Owen Waterbury, bestselling novelist, recruits aspiring writer Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord as his latest of many secretaries... more | add synopsis
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My first VCR purchase in 1983 more (13 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Laraine Day | ... | Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord |
 | Kirk Douglas | ... | Owen Waterbury |
| Keenan Wynn | ... | Ronnie Hastings |
| Helen Walker | ... | Elsie (Waterbury's former secretary) |
| Rudy Vallee | ... | Charles Harris (Harris Book Stores) |
| Florence Bates | ... | Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady) |
| Alan Mowbray | ... | Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency) |
| Irene Ryan | ... | Mary (Waterbury's housekeeper) |
| Gale Robbins | ... | Dawn O'Malley (The Untouchable Secretary) |
| Grady Sutton | ... | Sylvan Scott (writing student) |
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94 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Canada:G (Ontario) | USA:Approved (PCA #13279) | UK:U | Finland:S | Australia:G
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Ronnie Hastings: Is it informal, or shall I bathe? more
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One of my favorite comedies because of the character actors. Keenan Wynns very best droll efforts as the songwriting best friend and neighbor of Kirk Douglas; Florence Bates, a busybody as the owner of the apartment building where they live; Irene Ryan, the building maid who sings "Sniff, sniff where's your handkerchief; kerchoo, kerchoo, gazundheidt to you; Let yourself go and blow; Oh, let youself go and blow" Wynns latest song; Helen Walker, one of Kirks secretaries; Rudy Vallee, as Day's former boss; and Alan Mowbray as the dense detective Kirk hires to watch Day.
As in all screwball comedies, the story is just a framework for the characters to do and say their funny business. And they don't dissapoint. Douglas is a writer who has had a successful first novel and goes to a college to give a class and meets Day who is there as a student, and he hires her as his new secretary. When she arrives the next day, after quitting as Vallee's secretary, Walker goes up in the elevator with her to retrieve her belongings because she has just quit as the last secretary. It gets crazier as Wynn answers the door and receives a slap from the mother of one of the girls Kirk has just interviewed, which he immediately passes on to Kirk. Wynn spends most of his time at Kirks trying recipes which he is hilarious preparing, but no one ever dreams of eating.
More complications and silly goings on but it is all fun and is still one of my favorite videos, which I just watched again today. My rating: 8/10.