"SHE COULD BE A LOT OF WOMAN IF SHE GOT THE URGE...and she wouldn't need much urging!"

1943

1h 23m

7.0(22 votes)

Comedy

Romance

Overview

An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.

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Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Claudette Colbert

Katherine Grant

Fred MacMurray

Jim Ryan

Ilka Chase

Hoppy Grant

Richard Haydn

Roger Winant

Paul McGrath

Henry Fulton

June Havoc

Darlene

Marjorie Gateson

Sophie

Woody Strode

Black Sandhog (uncredited)

Murray Alper

Moran (uncredited)

Faith Brook

Pert Brunette (uncredited)

Creative team

Directed by: Mitchell Leisen
Written by: Robert Lees
Frederic I. Rinaldo
Produced by: Mitchell Leisen

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