Such Women Are Dangerous
Cast & Crew
James Flood
Warner Baxter
Rosemary Ames
Rochelle Hudson
Mona Barrie
Herbert Mundin
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Synopsis
Best-selling author Michael Shawn, whom his secretary, Helen Halleck, thinks should be writing more serious works, has a cyniccal contempt for the nine million women who buy his books. In the midst of dictating his latest novel, Michael is angered when an opera singer across the way interrupts his train of thought with her practicing; however, when he confronts the singer, Wanda Paris, they are attracted to each other, and they soon begin a romance. While autographing books at a department store, Michael is confronted by Verne Little, a young, impetuous fan who drove to New York from Indiana with the hope that Michael would help with her writing. Michael patiently listens as Verne reads her dreadfully morbid poetry and then arranges for Helen to lunch with Verne as he escapes to meet Wanda. After lunch, Verne, looking through Michael's apartment window, spies Michael and Wanda embracing in her apartment. Helen tries to comfort Verne, who is in tears because of her infatuation with Michael, but Verne accuses Helen of being in love with Michael herself. Helen then advises Michael that it would be dangerous for him to see Verne again because she dramatizes everything. He agrees, but Verne convinces him to take a drive with her to the country. They stop at a cottage for rent in Westchester and amuse themselves describing how they would fix it up. When the real estate agent arrives unexpectedly and sees Michael, in fun, carry Verne over the threshold into the bedroom, Michael, embarrassed, calls Verne his wife. After the agent leaves, Verne seductively climbs on Michael and kisses him, and when he berates her, she pleads that she'll never do it again if he will continue to let her see him. After Verne meets Wanda in Michael's apartment, Verne writes him that she will do something dangerous if he doesn't give Wanda up. He angrily writes back that his patience is wearing thin with her and asks her to come that evening to settle the situation. As Verne leaves her hotel to see Michael, the clerk says that if she does not pay her bill when she returns, he will be obliged to lock her room. Michael castigates her for attempting to interfere with his personal life and asks her to go back home and forget him. When he gives her a check to pay for her trip, she says it makes everything between them seem sordid. Michael confesses that he now plans to visit Wanda, and Verne drives off in tears. At Wanda's apartment, Michael finds her husband Jan, whom she had earlier told Michael was her "manager," and their son. Wanda tells Jan that Michael is writing a play for her, and Michael leaves without revealing their love affair. Meanwhile, Verne writes Michael another threatening letter in which she demands that he come to their "make-believe" house by twelve that night and delivers the note to Wanda's maid. Michael walks the streets and then goes into a movie theater. Three weeks later, Verne's body is found, and Michael is charged with her murder based on an abundance of circumstantial evidence. When Michael does not tell the court that he visited Wanda the night Verne died, Helen, believing that he spent the night with her and that he is trying not to involve her, implores Wanda to testify. Wanda introduces Helen to Jan, who states that Michael was only with them a short time. Helen starts to leave in resignation when Wanda's maid gives her a note for Michael. She and Michael think tha it is just another letter from an adoring fan, but after he tears it, he notices that it is the note Verne wrote in which she threatened to kill herself. Michael is found not guilty, and he soon marries Helen, who is happy that he has begun now to dictate serious prose.
Director
James Flood
Cast
Warner Baxter
Rosemary Ames
Rochelle Hudson
Mona Barrie
Herbert Mundin
Henrietta Crosman
Lily D. Stuart
Irving Pichel
Jane Barnes
Matt Moore
Richard Carle
Murray Kinnell
Frank Conroy
Fred Santley
John Sheehan
Addison Richards
Bodil Rosing
Douglas Scott
James Burke
George Offerman Jr.
Helena Phillips
Grace Goodall
Georgia Cooper
Tina Marshall
Carleton E. Griffin
Rita Owin
William Augustin
Monte Vandegrift
Edward Le Saint
Gladden James
Tom London
Edward Peil Sr.
Sam Flint
Stanley Blystone
Gabriel Gonzales
Dorothy Christy
Crew
Ed Berry
John Blanke
William Brent
Vera Caspary
Vera Caspary
Lenore Coffee
Eddie Collins
Louis De Francesco
Louis De Francesco
Percy Ikerd
Harry Jackson
Rita Kaufman
George Leverett
Edward T. Lowe
L. W. O'connell
Tommy Plews
Fred Richter
Al Rockett
Winfield R. Sheehan
Oscar M. Sheridan
Dorothy Spencer
Jane Storm
Frank Tresselt
Gordon Wiles
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Notes
The working titles of this film were Odd Thursday, which was the title of Vera Caspary's unpublished story, and Too Many Women. According to a Daily Variety news item, the Catholic Church put this film on their "condemned" list.
