Movies
TV Shows
People
02/12/1941 Comedy, Romance, Crime 1h 51m
74
User score

“I LOVE HIM because he doesn't know how to kiss—THE JERK!”

Overview

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

  1. Howard Hawks

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Gary Cooper

    Professor Bertram Potts

  2. Barbara Stanwyck

    Sugarpuss O’Shea

  3. Oskar Homolka

    Prof. Gurkakoff

  4. Henry Travers

    Prof. Jerome

  5. S.Z. Sakall

    Prof. Magenbruch

  6. Tully Marshall

    Prof. Robinson

  7. Leonid Kinskey

    Prof. Quintana

  8. Richard Haydn

    Prof. Oddly

  9. Aubrey Mather

    Prof. Peagram

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-25
This is a cracking little comedy with Gary Cooper as the unlikely boffin "Prof. Potts" who, alongside a group of equally eminent academics has been working on an encyclopaedia for the previous 9 years - and they've only got to "S". Enter the mailman who is doing a radio quiz just as our professor is concluding his section on slang - only for him to realise that their studious isolation has left them so out of touch as to render his slang definition worthless. Off he sets into the city to learn more where he alights on night-club singer "Sugarpuss O'Shea" (Barbara Stanwyck) and her colleagues w...read the rest
Read All Reviews

Recommendations

  1. A Night at the Roxbury65%
  2. Silk Stockings68%
  3. Prom Pact72%
  4. Sex and the Single Girl66%
  5. Let's Make Love64%
  6. Send Me No Flowers67%
  7. Pillow Talk71%
  8. Date with Love63%
  9. The Little Rascals68%
  10. Watching the Detectives63%
  11. Arsenic and Old Lace76%
  12. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days69%
  13. At Middleton62%
  14. Shadow of the Thin Man69%
  15. The Color Wheel62%
  16. You've Got Mail67%
  17. Made of Honor64%
  18. Runaway Bride61%
  19. Hairspray68%
  20. High Society68%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$2,641,000.00

Keywords