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She Wrote the Book

  • 1946
  • Passed
  • 1h 20m
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6.2/10
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Mischa Auer, Joan Davis, and Jack Oakie in She Wrote the Book (1946)
AdventureComedyRomance

A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small Midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed nam... Read allA plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small Midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. While in the big city, the math prof receives a bump on the head that brings on a form ... Read allA plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small Midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. While in the big city, the math prof receives a bump on the head that brings on a form of amnesia. She begins to believe that she is the author of the sultry book and has actual... Read all

  • Director
    • Charles Lamont
  • Writers
    • Warren Wilson
    • Oscar Brodney
  • Stars
    • Joan Davis
    • Jack Oakie
    • Mischa Auer
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.2/10
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    • Director
      • Charles Lamont
    • Writers
      • Warren Wilson
      • Oscar Brodney
    • Stars
      • Joan Davis
      • Jack Oakie
      • Mischa Auer
    • 4User reviews
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    • Jane Featherstone
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    • Jerry Marlowe
    Mischa Auer
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    • Joe aka Count Boris
    Kirby Grant
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    • Eddie Caldwell
    Jacqueline deWit
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    • Millicent Van Cleve
    Gloria Stuart
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    • Phyllis Fowler
    Thurston Hall
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    • Horace Van Cleve
    John Litel
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    • Dean Fowler
    Lewis L. Russell
    • George Dixon
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    Cora Witherspoon
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    • Carrothers
    Selmer Jackson
    Selmer Jackson
    • Fielding
    Frank Dae
    Frank Dae
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    Richard Abbott
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    Gladys Blake
    Gladys Blake
    • Miss Donovan
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    Walden Boyle
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    Ralph Brooks
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    George Bunny
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      This would be Gloria Stuart's final acting role until The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975) and her final film until My Favorite Year (1982).
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    She Thinks She Did
    Joan Davis is a buttoned down professor at an Indiana college. She's on her way to a conference to read her paper on abstruse mathematics, when dean's wife Gloria Stuart explains she wrote a tell-all novel called ALWAYS LULU. She wants the royalties for the college, which is just about broke, but for publicity publisher Thurston Hall and publicity man Jack Oakie want her in New York. They claim she has to sign papers. Miss Stuart asks Miss Davis to pretend to be her. Miss Davis reluctantly agrees, meets nice Texas engineer Kirby Grant and dates him up.... then comes down with total amnesia. Oakie, thinking her the real Lulu, tries to educate her in the ways of the vamp by reading to her from the book.

    It's an amusing albeit unlikely comedy set-up. The problem for fans of Miss Davis is that it gives her far too chances for her outsized clowning. Except for a few moments when Jack Oakie is reading the book to her, she seems far too much the mild math professor. The movies always had problems with the level of her clowning: too much in one movie, too little in another, like here, where usually the script rarely gives her a chance to show her comic chops.

    It was also the last film for three decades for Miss Stuart. Two more examples of how Hollywood often failed to know what to do with the talent it had.
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    • Release date
      • May 31, 1946 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Love Takes a Holiday
    • Filming locations
      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Universal Pictures
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      1 hour 20 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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