Complete credited cast: | |||
Katharine Hepburn | ... | Ann Hamilton | |
Robert Taylor | ... | Alan Garroway | |
Robert Mitchum | ... | Michael Garroway | |
Edmund Gwenn | ... | Prof. David 'Dink' Hamilton | |
Marjorie Main | ... | Lucy | |
Jayne Meadows | ... | Sylvia Lea Burton | |
Clinton Sundberg | ... | Mr. Warmsley | |
Dan Tobin | ... | Prof. Joseph Bangs | |
Kathryn Card | ... | Mrs. Foster | |
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Leigh Whipper | ... | George |
Charles Trowbridge | ... | Justice Putnam | |
James Westerfield | ... | Henry Gilson | |
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Billy McClain | ... | Uncle Ben (as Billy McLain) |
Approaching middle age, spinster Ann Hamilton, the daughter of Science Professor David Hamilton - more affectionately referred to as Dink - is intelligent, but dowdy and unsophisticated, she who never expects to get married and does nothing beyond be her tomboyish self in an effort to attract a man. Being single does not bother her as she repeatedly turns down the marriage proposal of Dink's colleague, Professor Joseph Bangs, a man she does not love. So it is with some surprise to her that she not only likes Alan Garroway, a wealthy and handsome industrialist who is doing business with Dink, but that they fall in love and get married after a whirlwind courtship. Alan made his wealth during the war in a family started business which ended up being a parts supplier to the military for their aircraft. In their bi-coastal marriage - Alan's company's headquarters in San Francisco, while he grew up and still owns property in Middleburg, Virginia, outside of Washington, DC where he has many ... Written by Huggo
The first time I saw undercurrent, I was as disturbed as everyone else by the soporific pacing.
Having just seen it for the second time, I have to say that there is much detail to enjoy. As in most Minnelli pictures, I enjoyed the awkward party scenes, in which elegant extras enjoy themselves while the principals cringe.
Katharine Hepburn is in her "insecure" mode, like in Summertime, and she is very good. The role would have been more natural for, say, Jeanne Crain.
Most enjoyable is Jayne Meadows, as a cold fish you can't quite figure out. She is incredibly beautiful in the ladies'lounge scene. Both her scenes with Hepbburn crackle with 1940s psychological intensity.