A Woman of Distinction

6.2(4)19501h 25m

Comedy

Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect; matters get more and more involved.

Director

Edward Buzzell

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Cast

Rosalind Russell

Susan Manning Middlecott

Ray Milland

Alexander "Alec" Stevenson

Edmund Gwenn

J.D. Middlecott

Janis Carter

Teddy Evans

Mary Jane Saunders

Louisa Middlecott

Francis Lederer

Paul Simone

Jerome Courtland

Jerome

Clifton Young

Chet

Gale Gordon

Postal Clerk

Harry Tyler

Cabbie

Lucille Ball

Self (uncredited)

Helene Stanley

Minor Role (uncredited)

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

6.0

There is quite a bit of chemistry here between Ray Milland's "Prof. Stevenson" - a British astronomy geek somewhat reluctantly doing the lecture tour rounds in the US of A; and the stiff-as-starch college dean "Susan" (Rosalind Russell). The former has something he wishes to return to the latter - and gagging for some sort of publicity for this flagging tour, his agent "Teddy" (Janis Carter) tries...