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What a Woman

What a Woman

  • Status: Released
  • 29-12-1943
  • Runtime: 94 min
  • Score: 5.6
  • Vote count: 4

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

Rosalind Russell

Carol Ainsley

Brian Aherne

Henry Pepper

Willard Parker

Prof. Michael 'Mike' Cobb

Alan Dinehart

Pat O'Shea

Edward Fielding

Sen. Howard Ainsley

Ann Savage

Jane Hughes

Norma Varden

Miss Timmons

Douglas Wood

Dean Alfred B. Shaeffer

Grady Sutton

Mr. Clark

Hobart Cavanaugh

Mailman (uncredited)

Chester Clute

Dormitory Clerk (uncredited)

Frank Dawson

Ben (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Miss Dawson (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

Buxton Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Gertrude Hoffmann

Night Maid (uncredited)

Lilyan Irene

Minna (uncredited)

Ann Shoemaker

Senator's Wife (uncredited)

Nella Walker

Senator's Wife (uncredited)

Shelley Winters

Secretary (uncredited)

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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.