Designing Woman

"His world is guys and dolls! Her world is gowns and glamor!"

1957 1h 58m EN

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6.6

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★6.6TMDB · 84

ComedyRomance

Synopsis

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A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.

“His world is guys and dolls! Her world is gowns and glamor!”

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Cast

Gregory Peck
Mike Hagen
Lauren Bacall
Marilla Brown Hagen
Dolores Gray
Lori Shannon
Sam Levene
Ned Hammerstein
Tom Helmore
Zachary Wilde
Mickey Shaughnessy
Maxie Stultz
Jesse White
Charlie Arneg
Chuck Connors
Johnnie 'O'

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Writers: George Wells
Languages: English, Italian
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

ERA

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69 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Italian.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Vincente Minnelli, shot by John Alton. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Adrienne Fazan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 8

CAST

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Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall and Dolores Gray carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "His world is guys and dolls! Her world is gowns and glamor!".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0050306 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 84 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Vincente Minnelli directs. John Alton behind the camera. Adrienne Fazan cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Italian.

Trivia

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169 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Italian.
3Directed by Vincente Minnelli, shot by John Alton. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Editor Adrienne Fazan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall and Dolores Gray carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "His world is guys and dolls! Her world is gowns and glamor!".
7IMDB entry: tt0050306 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 84 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: John Alton
Editing: Adrienne Fazan
Costume design: Helen Rose
Makeup / hair: Sydney Guilaroff
Runtime: 118 min · 1h 58m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Designing Woman (1957)

Awards

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

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CinemaSerf2025-02-17
★ 7/10
After a whistle stop romance, sports journalist “Mike” (Gregory Peck) marries high fashion designer “Marilla” (Lauren Bacall) but when they get back to his tiny bachelor flat in New York they realise that now the dust has settled, they don’t really know too much about each other. He wants to just settle back down to his own life, and that includes “Lori” (Dolores Gray) who has found out, third hand, about the marriage and isn’t best pleased. Thing is, the new wife doesn’t know anything about her, either, and after an encounter between the three finds her antennae are up and well and truly pointing (albeit in the wrong direction!). Meantime, “Mike” has another, more immediate, problem. He has been writing about bribery and corruption amongst the boxing fraternity and that’s irked the local mafiosi who have put a price on his head. When his editor assigns him a bodyguard and holes him up in a grotty hotel while they finesse the coup de grâce of his story, she gets even more suspicious. Whom is more dangerous - the mob or the wife? It’s quite good fun this with Bacall and Gray making mincemeat of their hapless “Mike”. Peck also seems in on the gag and is a willing participant as things turn to some Harold Lloyd style alley-way fisticuffs. There’s some wit from the script and even if some of her frocks are truly ghastly, even by empresses new clothes standards, Bacall is at the top of her game.

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