Designing Woman

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Designing Woman
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NR,1hr 58min
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Released:
January 1, 1957
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Synopsis: Vincente Minnelli directed this sophisticated comedy, which owes a debt to Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn vehicles. Sportswriter Mike Hagen (Gregory Peck) and fashion designer Marilla (Lauren Bacall) are New Yorkers who meet while both are vacationing in California. It's love at first sight, and the two decide on the spur of the moment to get married. However, once they return to the Big Apple, it starts to occur to them just how different they are after Mike moves out of his sloppy bachelor lair ... Full Synopsis
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Vincente Minnelli's Designing Woman (1957) was marketed as a zany, action-filled romantic comedy, but it has a subtext that was unique for its time -- indeed, the original trailer's description of the movie as "riotously revealing" was almost unintentionally frank. Minelli's movie is very much an essay on manhood and the way it is perceived, by those who flaunt it and those who simply have it. The ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Mike Hagen
Marilla Hagen
Lori Shannon
Ned Hammerstein
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