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Director:

Michael Curtiz

Writers:

Louise Randall Pierson (novel)
Louise Randall Pierson (screenplay)
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Release Date:

13 June 1947 (Finland) more

Genre:

Comedy | Drama more

Plot:

In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. She enrolls at... more | add synopsis

User Comments:

Roughly Speaking-Speaking of Nostalgia ***1/2 more (10 total)


Cast

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Rosalind Russell ... Louise Randall Pierson

Jack Carson ... Harold C. Pierson
Robert Hutton ... John Crane, ages 20-28

Jean Sullivan ... Louise Jr., ages 18-26
Donald Woods ... Rodney Crane
Alan Hale ... Lew Morton

Andrea King ... Barbara, ages 21-29
Ann Doran ... Alice Abbott
Mona Freeman ... Barbara, ages 15-20
Robert Arthur ... Frankie at 17
Ray Collins ... Mr. John Chase Randall
John Qualen ... Svend Olsen
Kathleen Lockhart ... Mrs. Henrietta Louise Randall
Ann E. Todd ... Louise Randall as a child (as Ann Todd)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Irving Bacon ... Customer in music shop (unconfirmed)
Barbara Brown ... Relief worker (unconfirmed)
Chester Clute ... The proprietor (unconfirmed)
Andy Clyde ... Matt (unconfirmed)
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Additional Details

Runtime:

117 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Finland:S


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Bette Davis turned down the lead role in this film. more

Goofs:

Factual errors: The young children toss a fuzzy duckling into the air and happily "watch" it as it supposedly flies up in the air. But ducklings have no feathers and cannot fly. more

Soundtrack:

It Had to Be You more


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Roughly Speaking-Speaking of Nostalgia ***1/2, 9 July 2008
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Author: edwagreen from United States

A wonderful Rosalind Russell vehicle with Jack Carson in fine form as her 2nd husband.

It tells us of a woman's determination to survive this world-despite deaths in the family, a heel of a husband, (Donald Woods),illness, and the Great Depression.

Russell throws her usual zest for this type of commanding woman in the film and succeeds. Though out of his league as the usual grade B actor, Woods succeeds here in the part of the first husband, who walks out on Russell after 10 years of marriage, 4 children and a life of hard times.

The film is definitely a slice of Americana and the idea of hard work and accomplishment. It also very well deals with adversity just as things are going so well. Isn't that so true of life itself? That's why the film succeeds and is quite memorable.

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