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A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

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A Lady Takes a Chance 1943 | Starring Jean Arthur , John Wayne | Comedy Romance Western Film

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Dr. Strangelove (1964)

A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

Runtime:86 minutes

Director: William A. Seiter

Country:United States

Actors:

Jean Arthur

Molly J. Truesdale

John Wayne

Duke Hudkins

Charles Winninger

Waco

Phil Silvers

Smiley Lambert

Mary Field

Florrie Bendix

Don Costello

Drunk

John Philliber

Storekeeper

Grady Sutton

Malcolm Scott

Jean Stevens

'Jitterbug'

Grant Withers

Bob Hastings

Rating:

(1'365 votes)

Language:English

Genres:Comedy, Romance, Western

Writers:

Robert Ardrey

(screenplay)

Jo Swerling

(story)

Garson Kanin

(unconfirmed) (unconfirmed) (uncredited)

Producers:

Dick Ross

associate producer

Keywords:craps, irish whiskey, tequila, screwball comedy, deception

Production company:

Frank Ross Productions

Plots: Facing forty, a NYC spinster on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her unsuitable city suitors. In 1938, an unmarried New York City bank clerk facing her 40th birthday ,Mollie Truesdale (Jean Arthur), with a trio of unsuitable suitors, finds that her cherished dream of making a 17-day all-expenses-paid bus trip to the Pacific Coast and back, isn't all she thought it would be...until she reaches Oregon and a bucking broncho tosses a rodeo performer on top of her and knocks her flat. Duke Hudkins (John Wayne), by way of apology, shows her the sights of Fairfield, Oregon, and she misses her bus, quarrels with the bewildered Duke, hitchhikes across a lot of desert...and a romance is born.

Goofs: Anachronisms The story takes place in 1938 many years before wash and wear and permapress, yet Jean Arthur's single outfit remains constantly clean and wrinkle free despite her many misadventures, including sleeping all night on the open desert. Character error The only time Jean Arthur is seen carrying a purse is in the brief sequence when she goes into the grocery store to purchase the lamp chops. Yet her make-up, lipstick, false eyelashes and hair style remain intact throughout the film, and she doesn't even take off her shoes when she sacks out on the prairie. Miscellaneous Although not acknowledged publicly, Jean Arthur was seven years older than John Wayne in this film, and despite every possible attempt to disguise the fact that she was by now 42 years old, the difference in their ages is constantly apparent.

Quotes:

Waco : Remember what you told me? "Women is like socks... you gotta change 'em regular."

Waco : Love is the best thing there is, I guess, but you're barking up the wrong cowboy.

Duke Hudkins : Time to bed down. Hope you don't mind sleepin' on the same desert with me.

Molly J. Truesdale : He's pretty fresh, isn't he?

Waco : Well, he's in the open air all the time.

Taglines: « Love and Laughs on the Loose! SHE wants to stretch her one big moment into a lifetime...HE thinks love's a swell one-evening pastime! (Print Ad-Washington Observer, ((Washington, Penna.)) 30 December 1943) » , « IT'S SCREWY...And So Funny! IT'S RIOTOUS...And Romantic! (1950 reissue poster) » , « A ROUGH RIDIN' RODEO RIDER who takes the prize on and off the field! (1954 reissue poster) »

Also known as: A Lady Takes a Chance ( United States ), En natt med en cowboy ( Norway ), En natt med en cowboy ( Sweden ), Harte Burschen - Steile Zähne ( Austria )

Composer: Roy Webb

Source:

IMDb's page for this movie

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