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Let's Live a Little (1948)

Let's Live a Little poster
Directed by
Richard Wallace
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An advertising executive is stretched thin by his job and pursued by his former fiancée a perfume magnate. While meeting a new client a psychiatrist and author he finds himself entangled with a beautiful woman who offers to treat his stress.

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What happens

Let's Live a Little is a 1948 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Wallace and starring Hedy Lamarr, Robert Cummings and Anna Sten. Written by Howard Irving Young, Edmund L. Hartmann, Albert J. Cohen, and Jack Harvey, the film is about an overworked advertising executive who is being pursued romantically by his former fiancée, a successful perfume magnate, who is also the ad agency's largest client. While visiting a new client—a psychiatrist and author—to discuss a proposed ad campaign, his life becomes further complicated when the new client turns out to be a beautiful woman, who decides to treat his nervous condition. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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