She Wrote the Book
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Cast & Crew
Charles Lamont
Joan Davis
Jack Oakie
Mischa Auer
Kirby Grant
Jacqueline De Wit
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When Jane Featherstone, a mathematics professor at Croyden College in Great Falls, Indiana, makes plans to present a paper in New York City, Phyllis Fowler, the dean's wife, confesses to her that she is Lulu Winters, the author of the scandalous book Always Lulu . Phyllis asks Jane to assume the identity of Lulu while in New York in order to pick up $80,000 in royalty checks, and the professor reluctantly agrees when Phyllis promises to donate the money to the financially strapped college. Both Jane and Phyllis are unaware, however, that publisher George Dixon and his advertising executive, Jerry Marlowe, have planned a grand reception for Lulu. On the train to New York, Jane meets Eddie Caldwell, an engineer from Texas, who is immediately impressed by her mathematical skills and makes a date with her for that evening. Learning of Jerry's publicity plans, Jane tries to run away, only to receive a head injury. Suffering from amnesia, Jane is then convinced by Jerry that she is Lulu. Later, at her press conference, Jane announces that she has no plans to write a sequel, as there is "so little time, so much to do." Upset by this, George and Jerry hire Joe, a Russian bartender, to impersonate Count Boris, the "love" of Lulu's life. It then becomes Joe's task to spend all of Lulu's royalty money in order to force the novelist to write a second book. Meanwhile, back in Great Falls, published photographs of Jane as Lulu cause a great sensation. Phyllis offers to go to New York and see Jane, but her husband forbids it. Back in New York, Jerry's plans are thwarted when Jane is romanced by Horace Van Cleve, a shipping magnate who gives Jane money as fast as Joe can spend it. While at a ship launching, Jane sees Eddie, and recognizing him from a photograph, the two are re-acquainted and plan another date. After reading Always Lulu , however, Eddie becomes incensed and tells Jane off. Joe then proposes marriage to Jane, but leaves as soon as he learns that she is broke. Unable to write anything because of her amnesia, Jane is escorted by Jerry back to Great Falls, where she finally regains her faculties. Jane quickly confesses all to Jerry, then meets with Phyllis and her husband, who tell her that the bankrupt Croyden is closing. Jane rushes back to New York, hoping to convince Van Cleve to endow the college. Van Cleve refuses, however, so Jane goes to a Van Cleve party as Lulu Winters in hopes of blackmailing the money out of the shipping magnate. Also at the party is Eddie, who has been sent there to deliver some blueprints. Eddie is immediately recognized by Van Cleve as an associate of Jane's and is fired. In anger, he takes Jane over his knee and gives her a spanking. Afraid his relationship with Lulu will become public, a desperate Van Cleve then agrees to endow the college, and Jane returns to her teaching job, with Eddie joining her in Great Falls.
Director
Charles Lamont
Cast
Joan Davis
Jack Oakie
Mischa Auer
Kirby Grant
Jacqueline De Wit
Gloria Stuart
Thurston Hall
John Litel
Lewis L. Russell
Cora Witherspoon
Selmer Jackson
Frank Dae
Raymond Largay
Victoria Horne
Verna Felton
Jack J. Ford
Phil Garris
Edgar Dearing
Olin Howlin
Eddie Dunn
Gladys Blake
Dick Elliott
Gus Glassmire
Richard Abbott
Walden Boyle
Jimmy Clark
Donald Kerr
Wally Scott
Marie Harmon
Pat Lane
Douglas Carter
Milton Charleston
Warren Jackson
Wilbur Mack
Ralph Brooks
George Bunny
Chester Conklin
Broderick O'farrell
Ethyl May Halls
Ann Lawrence
Bhogwan Singh
Tom Pilkington
John Hamilton
Claire Whitney
Crew
Oscar Brodney
Bernard B. Brown
Monty F. Collins
Edward Colman
Carmen Dirigo
Edgar Fairchild
Fred R. Feitshans Jr.
Russell A. Gausman
Joe Gershenson
William Hedgcock
D. S. Horsley
Russell Lawson
Ted Offenbecker
Jack Otterson
Jack P. Pierce
Ronald K. Pierce
Richard H. Riedel
George Robinson
William Tummel
Vera West
Warren Wilson
Warren Wilson
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The working title of this film was Love Takes a Holiday. According to Variety, the film's satire on the way publishers used book-banning in cities like Boston to sell their bestsellers was based on the marketing of such novels as Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor.
