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Designing Woman
His world is guys and dolls! Her world is gowns and glamor!
A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
- Original title
- Designing Woman
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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Feb 17, 2025 · via TMDB
After a whistle stop romance, sports journalist “Mike” (Gregory Peck) marries high fashion designer “Marilla” (Lauren Bacall) but when they get back to his tiny bachelor flat in New York they realise that now the dust has settled, they don’t really know too much about each other. He wants to just settle back down to his own life, and that includes “Lori” (Dolores Gray) who has found out, third hand, about the marriage and isn’t best pleased. Thing is, the new wife doesn’t know anything about her, either, and after an encounter between the three finds her antennae are up and well and truly pointing (albeit in the wrong direction!). Meantime, “Mike” has another, more immediate, problem. He has been writing about bribery and corruption amongst the boxing fraternity and that’s irked the local mafiosi who have put a price on his head. When his editor assigns him a bodyguard and holes him up in a grotty hotel while they finesse the coup de grâce of his story, she gets even more suspicious. Whom is more dangerous - the mob or the wife? It’s quite good fun this with Bacall and Gray making mincemeat of their hapless “Mike”. Peck also seems in on the gag and is a willing participant as things turn to some Harold Lloyd style alley-way fisticuffs. There’s some wit from the script and even if some of her frocks are truly ghastly, even by empresses new clothes standards, Bacall is at the top of her game.
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Gregory Peck
Mike Hagen
Lauren Bacall
Marilla Brown Hagen
Dolores Gray
Lori Shannon
Sam Levene
Ned Hammerstein
Tom Helmore
Zachary Wilde
Mickey Shaughnessy
Maxie Stultz
Jesse White
Charlie Arneg
Chuck Connors
Johnnie 'O'
Edward Platt
Martin J. Daylor
Alvy Moore
Luke Coslow
Carol Veazie
Gwen
Jack Cole
Randy Owens
Richard Deacon
Larry Musso (uncredited)
Dean Jones
Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
Benny Rubin
Chris Matthews (uncredited)
Geraldine Wall
Nora Hammerstein (uncredited)
Sid Melton
Milt (uncredited)
Madge Blake
Woman At Theatrical Meeting (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Fashion Show Guest (uncredited)
Leoda Richards
Lady in Newspaper Office / Fashion Show Guest (uncredited)
George Cisar
Card Player (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
Thug (uncredited)
Ruth Clifford
Vanessa Cole
Forbes Murray
Fashion Show Attendee
William H. O'Brien
Party Guest (uncredited)
Lomax Study
Waiter (uncredited)
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
John Alton
Director of Photography
Helen Rose
Costume Design
Sydney Guilaroff
Hair Designer
William Tuttle
Makeup Artist
Jack Cole
Choreographer
Vincente Minnelli
Director
George Wells
Associate Producer
Dore Schary
Producer
André Previn
Music
George Wells
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