Watching As Young As You Feel I got the impression that this was a film originally meant for that other Fox contract player Clifton Webb. It seems like just the kind of material that Webb would be doing throughout the 50s.
Woolley plays a 65 year old man who is mandatorily retired from his job at a large company as a printer. He lives with his son Allyn Joslyn and his wife Thelma Ritter and their daughter Jean Peters. Woolley works with David Wayne at the company who is going out with Peters.
Other than job and family Woolley's only other diversion is playing the piccolo in an orchestra. Feeling he still has a lot to contribute he decides upon an audacious plan. Putting some dye into that famous beard of his, Woolley gets some expensive threads and masks himself as the visiting head of Consolidated (General) Motors which owns the small firm he's employed at. He makes the boss Albert Dekker really jump to his attention and Dekker's wife Constance Bennett start looking in Woolley's direction. OK because Dekker has been looking at his secretary Marilyn Monroe quite lasciviously. Marilyn has only a couple of lines, but she's dressed to accent her best features.
The whole thing is kind of silly, but entertaining. Good thing the real head of the firm Minor Watson has a sense of humor because Woolley was flirting with some fraud charges.
Either Clifton Webb was not available or he passed As Young As You Feel By. What he passed on Monty Woolley makes adequately amusing.
Woolley plays a 65 year old man who is mandatorily retired from his job at a large company as a printer. He lives with his son Allyn Joslyn and his wife Thelma Ritter and their daughter Jean Peters. Woolley works with David Wayne at the company who is going out with Peters.
Other than job and family Woolley's only other diversion is playing the piccolo in an orchestra. Feeling he still has a lot to contribute he decides upon an audacious plan. Putting some dye into that famous beard of his, Woolley gets some expensive threads and masks himself as the visiting head of Consolidated (General) Motors which owns the small firm he's employed at. He makes the boss Albert Dekker really jump to his attention and Dekker's wife Constance Bennett start looking in Woolley's direction. OK because Dekker has been looking at his secretary Marilyn Monroe quite lasciviously. Marilyn has only a couple of lines, but she's dressed to accent her best features.
The whole thing is kind of silly, but entertaining. Good thing the real head of the firm Minor Watson has a sense of humor because Woolley was flirting with some fraud charges.
Either Clifton Webb was not available or he passed As Young As You Feel By. What he passed on Monty Woolley makes adequately amusing.