She Knew All the Answers
Cast & Crew
Richard Wallace
Joan Bennett
Franchot Tone
John Hubbard
Eve Arden
William Tracy
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Synopsis
When millionaire playboy Randy Bradford proposes to chorine Gloria Winters, Gloria eagerly accepts and the lovers elope in a hansom cab. En route, the cab is stopped by a motorcycle policeman, who tells Randy to contact his guardian, Mark Willows, a partner in the Wall Street firm that Randy's late father helped found. Randy phones Willows and is told that he will lose his inheritance if he elopes. Faced with forfeiting a fortune, Gloria persuades Randy to postpone the wedding. After dropping off Gloria at her apartment, Randy proceeds to Willows' office and the two argue. The next day, Gloria, who has never met Willows, conceals her identity and goes to his office, where she is surprised to discover that Willows is a handsome, young man. Hoping to convince him to change his mind about her, Gloria wangles a job as a switchboard operator. A few days later, Willows is in a bad mood and Gloria tells the barber downstairs that her boss is "bearish." Gloria's description is interpreted as meaning that he plans to sell his stock. When holders of Willows' favorite oil stock hear of his "plans," they decide to sell their shares, and as a result, the value drops. Furious upon learning the cause of the stock's slump, Willows fires Gloria. Before leaving the office building, Gloria naïvely suggests that the firm turn bullish, and as a result, brokers snap up the stock and Willows' firm earns twice as much as it lost. Now contrite, Willows visits Gloria to offer her job back. Surprised by his visit, Gloria lies that her chorus girl roommate, Sally Long, is actually her ailing sister. After Gloria returns to work, Willows asks her out on a date. Jealous, Randy tells Willows that he is ready to settle down and asks for a position at the office. One day, Willows discovers Randy and Gloria embracing, and deduces who really she is. Feeling betrayed, Willows coldly suggests that the two get married and offers to make the arrangements as well as give the bride away. On her wedding day, as Gloria ascends the altar, she realizes that she is in love with Willows. Willows discovers he is in love with Gloria, and Randy, panicking at the thought of losing his freedom, faints. Fleeing from the church, Willows and Gloria then elope in the same hansom cab that Gloria had previously occupied with Randy.
Director
Richard Wallace
Cast
Joan Bennett
Franchot Tone
John Hubbard
Eve Arden
William Tracy
Pierre Watkin
Almira Sessions
Thurston Hall
Grady Sutton
Luis Alberni
Francis Compton
Dick Elliott
Selmer Jackson
Forbes Murray
Roscoe Ates
Chester Clute
George Lloyd
Frank Sully
Eddie Conrad
Patti Mccarty
William Benedict
Fern Emmett
Pauline Starke
Walter Soderling
Don Beddoe
Patricia Hill
Onest Conley
George Hickman
Don Maroin
Alice Keating
Edward Earle
David Willock
Tom Metletti
George Beranger
Douglas Wood
Jack Norton
Lelah Tyler
Sarah Edwards
Byron Foulger
Freeman Wood
Crew
Lionel Banks
George Cooper
Norman Deming
Kenneth Earl
Henry Freulich
Gene Havlick
Curtis Kenyon
William A. Pierce
Charles R. Rogers
Francis Ryan
Harry Segall
M. W. Stoloff
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Notes
The working title of this film was A Girl's Best Friend Is Wall Street. This marked producer Charles Rogers' initial effort at Columbia. On January 11, 1943, Lux Radio Theatre broadcast a radio version of Jane Allen's story, starring Joan Bennett, Preston Foster and Eve Arden.
