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Slightly Dangerous

  • 19431943
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 34m
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6.7/10
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Lana Turner and Robert Young in Slightly Dangerous (1943)
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ComedyRomance
Peggy is 21 and bored. She has just been awarded a certificate for starting work on time for 1000 days. She decides that she needs a change so she leaves a note, which is taken to be suicida... Read allPeggy is 21 and bored. She has just been awarded a certificate for starting work on time for 1000 days. She decides that she needs a change so she leaves a note, which is taken to be suicidal, and heads for New York where she gets a make over. A new outfit, a new look and an frea... Read allPeggy is 21 and bored. She has just been awarded a certificate for starting work on time for 1000 days. She decides that she needs a change so she leaves a note, which is taken to be suicidal, and heads for New York where she gets a make over. A new outfit, a new look and an freak accident gets her in the paper as a amnesia victim, just because she does not want to be... Read all
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    • Wesley Ruggles
  • Writers
    • Ian McLellan Hunter(story)
    • Aileen Hamilton(story)
    • Charles Lederer(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Lana Turner
    • Robert Young
    • Walter Brennan
    • Wesley Ruggles
  • Writers
    • Ian McLellan Hunter(story)
    • Aileen Hamilton(story)
    • Charles Lederer(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Lana Turner
    • Robert Young
    • Walter Brennan
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 29User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Lana Turner and Robert Young in Slightly Dangerous (1943)
    Lana Turner and Robert Young in Slightly Dangerous (1943)
    Lana Turner and Robert Young in Slightly Dangerous (1943)
    Lana Turner and Robert Young in Slightly Dangerous (1943)
    Lana Turner and Robert Young in Slightly Dangerous (1943)
    Lana Turner and Robert Young in Slightly Dangerous (1943)
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    Lana Turner and Robert Young in Slightly Dangerous (1943)
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    Lana Turner
    Lana Turner
    • Peggy Evans aka Carol Burden
    Robert Young
    Robert Young
    • Bob Stuart
    Walter Brennan
    Walter Brennan
    • Cornelius Burden
    May Whitty
    May Whitty
    • Baba
    • (as Dame May Whitty)
    Eugene Pallette
    Eugene Pallette
    • Durstin
    Alan Mowbray
    Alan Mowbray
    • English Gentleman
    Florence Bates
    Florence Bates
    • Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
    Howard Freeman
    Howard Freeman
    • Mr. Quill
    Millard Mitchell
    Millard Mitchell
    • Baldwin
    Ward Bond
    Ward Bond
    • Jimmy
    Pamela Blake
    Pamela Blake
    • Mitzi
    Ray Collins
    Ray Collins
    • Snodgrass
    Paul Stanton
    Paul Stanton
    • Stanhope
    O.K. Ford
    • Music Lover
    Eddie Acuff
    Eddie Acuff
    • Soda Jerk
    • (uncredited)
    Ed Agresti
    • Waiter
    • (uncredited)
    John Alban
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Hooper Atchley
    Hooper Atchley
    • Man Getting on Bus
    • (uncredited)
      • Wesley Ruggles
    • Writers
      • Ian McLellan Hunter(story)
      • Aileen Hamilton(story)
      • Charles Lederer(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      During production there were a few proposed titles for the film, such as "Nothing Ventured" and "Lawless". In view of the recent scandal involving a pregnant Lana Turner (whose marriage to the child's father, Stephen Crane, was not legal since his divorce from his first wife had yet to become final), those titles were rejected. Eventually, the studio settled on "Slightly Dangerous", an ironic title for a comedy that did ultimately serve the film (and Turner) very well.
    • Goofs
      When reading the New York Star archives, an article reads "Broken window in nursery 'clew' to tot's abduction". That spelling of the word "clue" was still in use at the time, although it has since become anachronistic.
    • Quotes

      Bob Stuart: Well, uh, you see, she had amnesia when I met her. What's more, it recurred, you know, kept happening on and off. Why once I came home late at night. I got into bed, kissed her and she gave me a friendly smile and then said, "Who are you?" It was the friendly smile that burned me up.

    • Connections
      Featured in Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir (2001)
    • Soundtracks
      Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture
      (1869) (uncredited)

      Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Played by the orchestra at the concert

    User reviews29

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    5/10
    Anastasia Turner
    Slightly Dangerous finds Lana Turner bored with life in small town Hotchkiss Falls and bored with her job as a soda jerk in a department store. She even does her job making a banana split blindfolded to the amusement of the customer, but new general manager Robert Young finds he's not amused. She's fired, but then so is he after she leaves a fake suicide note saying she's throwing herself in the river.

    Instead she goes to New York and when she's hit by a falling ladder after she's heard talking to herself when she comes to, everyone thinks she's got amnesia. Instead using that she decides to become the long lost daughter of millionaire Walter Brennan who was lost at the age of 2 by nanny Dame May Witty while going to the circus.

    It's interesting that none of the previous reviewers noted that this a reworking of the Anastasia legend. But that's a serious story involving a plot to deliberately defraud the exiled Romanovs.

    Maybe I'm missing something here, but I find a comedy based on a premise of fraud and extortion not all that funny. Yet even with a lousy starting point, Slightly Dangerous does holdup somewhat because of the incredible cast of name performers in this film like Ray Collins, Ward Bond, Eugene Palette, and Alan Mowbray besides those already mentioned.

    And there's Lana Turner who just has to be Lana Turner to get me viewing a film. She's got that winsome quality throughout her films in the Forties that men and women found so appealing.

    Anyway with a cast like this, chances are you'll find something enjoyable about Slightly Dangerous.
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    • Jul 25, 2008

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    • Release date
      • April 1943 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • 1 hour 34 minutes
      • Black and White

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