A Lady Takes a Chance

19431943
PassedPassed
1h 26m

John Wayne and Jean Arthur in A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

Comedy Romance Western

A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her simpy city suitors.A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her simpy city suitors.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)
- Garson Kanin(unconfirmed)
Stars

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John Wayne and Jean Arthur in A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

John Wayne and Jean Arthur in A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

Jean Arthur and Hans Conried in A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

John Wayne, Jean Arthur, Cy Kendall, and Charles Winninger in A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

John Wayne and Jean Arthur in A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

John Wayne, Jean Arthur, and Charles Winninger in A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

Jean Arthur and Charles Winninger in A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

John Wayne, Jean Arthur, and Charles Winninger in A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

Director
- William A. Seiter
Writers
- Robert Ardrey(screenplay)
- Jo Swerling(story)
- Garson Kanin(unconfirmed) (unconfirmed) (uncredited)
All cast & crew
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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. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

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Taglines
- IT'S SCREWY...And So Funny! IT'S RIOTOUS...And Romantic! (1950 reissue poster)
Genres
Certificate
- Passed
Parents guide

Trivia
Although his character in A Lady Takes a Chance is named Duke Hudkins, actor John Wayne got his nickname "The Duke" long before. In his early teens living in Glendale, California, Wayne had a dog named Duke. They were so inseparable that family and friends called them Little Duke and Big Duke. For Wayne, who soon entered high school theatrical productions, the name stuck.

Quotes
Waco: Remember what you told me? "Women is like socks... you gotta change 'em regular."

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

Soundtracks
Swingin' at the Cotton Club
Written by Bob Bell
Performed by The Three Peppers

Top review

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.

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timmauk
Sep 11, 2001

Release date
- August 19, 1943 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Language
- English
Also known as
- The Cowboy and the Girl
Filming locations
- RKO Studios - 780 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production company
- Frank Ross Productions
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Runtime
1 hour 26 minutes
Color
- Black and White
Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1

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