Desk Set

  • Spencer Tracy: Richard Sumner
  • Katharine Hepburn: Bunny Watson
  • Gig Young: Mike Cutler
  • Joan Blondell: Peg Costello
  • Dina Merrill: Sylvia Blair
  • Sue Randall: Ruthie Saylor
  • Neva Patterson: Miss Warriner
  • Harry Ellerbe: Smithers
  • Nicholas Joy: Mr. Azae

A woman who knows everything is an American feature film ( comedy film ), director Walter Lang in 1957 staged for 20th Century Fox. It is based on the stage play The Desk Set by William Marchant. In Germany the film was occasionally also the title of a woman who knows everything.

Action

Scene of the action is an office skyscraper in Manhattan, the time the present. Richard Sumner is an inventor and efficiency expert who has developed a computer named EMMARAC. Mr. Azae, president of a radio station, has already purchased one of these devices for its accounting and Sumner instructed to consider whether the information office of the company can be replaced by a computer useful. The Information Office is an in-house service department, in reply to their employees with the help of a home library requests of any kind.

Head of the Department is Bunny Watson, a woman of amazing education and intelligence, whose only weakness lies in private. Namely, it is friends with Mike for seven years, a distinguished Manager desselbens company, it is estimated Bunny always to have available without having to previously make her concession of a serious bond. Although the women soon find out that Sumner's work, it seeks to replace it by a computer, start Bunny and Sumner, to care for each other in private. That Mike she " caught " with Sumner in her apartment in a supposedly compromising situation, Bunny comes right location. Also, during a Christmas office staff advised the two men together. In order not to lose Bunny at the supposed rival, Mike finally makes her a marriage proposal.

The information department is replaced by a EMMARAC computer, a grotesque, space-filling machine that is fed with all the data from the library and now operated by Sumner's assistant, Miss Warriner. However, due to an operating error, the machine fails after a short time, and the women take their gloating back to work. Since they have now received a termination notice, complained Sumner, the Bunny and her colleagues at no time did want to release, at Mr. Azae. The reports that the termination is based solely on an error by the now yes also computerized accounting. The women keep their jobs, and Bunny and Sumner are a couple.

Form

A woman who produces everything is white in color and in widescreen CinemaScope.

Production and reception

Production history

The screenplay for A woman who knows everything is based on William Marchant stage comedy The Desk Set, which was listed on 24 October 1955 to July 5, 1956 successfully on Broadway. In the stage version of Shirley Booth, Byron Sanders and Frank Milan have played the lead roles. So Tracy could occur in the role of a mature, but romantic lover, the template had to be heavily rewritten. A woman who knows everything was the eighth and penultimate joint film with Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, a pair were private.

The interior shots for the film took place in the Fox Studios in Century City district of Los Angeles, for the exterior shots was chosen Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.

Theatrical Release

The work was premiered in the U.S. on May 1, 1957.

Reviews

" Spirited film adaptation of a stage comedy with witty dialogue, the consolation for the small matter of the story. "

1957 in film Phoebe Ephron Henry Ephron Film score Cyril J. Mockridge Robert L. Simpson (film editor) Fictional film Broadway theatre Century City (Los Angeles)
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