What a Woman! (1943)

Original title

What a Woman

Directed by

Irving Cummings

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A female literary agent tries to make her star client, an author, become an actor playing his own character. When that fails, a journalist tricks the author into thinking he is in love with the agent, leading to a fake romance that gets blown up by the media.

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What happens

What a Woman! is a 1943 American romantic comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Rosalind Russell and Brian Aherne. The screenplay concerns a literary agent Carol Ainsley's trying to transform her star client, Michael Cobb, into the actor playing his most famous character. After it becomes obvious that it's impossible and he quits, Henry Pepper, a journalist writing a profile on the agent, calls him and convinces him that he's in love with Carol. Michael returns and the media embellishes their relationship constraining Carol to lead him on. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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