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What a Woman

"She started the world's greatest MAN-Hunt... AND what she got was too HOT to HANDLE"

An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.

Top Cast

  • Rosalind Russell

    Rosalind Russell

    Carol Ainsley

  • Brian Aherne

    Brian Aherne

    Henry Pepper

  • Willard Parker

    Willard Parker

    Prof. Michael 'Mike' Cobb

  • Alan Dinehart

    Alan Dinehart

    Pat O'Shea

  • Edward Fielding

    Edward Fielding

    Sen. Howard Ainsley

  • Ann Savage

    Ann Savage

    Jane Hughes

  • Norma Varden

    Norma Varden

    Miss Timmons

  • Douglas Wood

    Douglas Wood

    Dean Alfred B. Shaeffer

  • Grady Sutton

    Grady Sutton

    Mr. Clark

Overview

An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.

Rating

6.3 / 10
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  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Apr 4, 2022

    Rosalind Russell is on super form here as "Carol", a literary agent seeking the ideal male actor for a part in her latest acquisition. After searching high and low, she decides that the best man to play the role is the man who wrote it - a rather shy and retiring, though handsome, college professor "Cobb" (Willard Parker). Whilst being pursued for an interview by the persistent "Pepper" (Brian Aherne), she has to use all her wiles and guile to convict the former to take the part and keep the latter at bay. The plot develops along pretty familiar lines, and towards the end sinks a little too much into farce for me, but the star delivers her quick-fire script with confidence and style; Parker is quite effective as the hapless academic and Aherne has a knowingly smug look on his face for much of the latter part of the film as the inevitable romance develops. It's not a great film, but there are strong characterful performances and it flies by for 90 minutes.

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