Woman's World

Woman's World (1954)

The Worldy Story of Three Deadly Females and the Men in Their Lives!

Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.

Date of release
1954-09-30
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (20)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Drama
Director
Jean Negulesco

Casting

Interesting facts

Woman's World is a 1954 American CinemaScope and print by Technicolor drama film about corporate America directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Clifton Webb, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl and Cornel Wilde. The screenplay concerns three men who compete for the top job at a large company.

Production

The film was based on Mona Williams' short story "May the Best Wife Win", originally published in McCall's magazine in 1950. 20th Century Fox bought the film rights, intending to make a movie along the lines of A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve.

In January 1952 Julian Blaustein was to produce and the film was going to star Jeanne Crain, Corinne Calvet, Marilyn Monroe and Joanne Dru. In April 1953 Claude Binyon was going to direct and Raymond Klune produce with Jeanne Crain and possibly Gloria Grahame to star. Other castings mentioned included Susan Hayward and Michael Rennie. By December 1953 Binyon had finished the script.

In January 1954 producer Charles Brackett announced the team of Lindsay and Crouse would write the script. Brackett wanted to cast six stars and aimed to start filming in April.

Location filming started in New York in February while the script was being written. By this stage the director was Jean Negulesco and the stars were intended to be Clifton Webb, June Allyson, Eleanor Parker, Glenn Ford, Lauren Bacall and Charlton Heston. There was also a car, the "Ford of Tomorrow", built by Ford at a cost of $180,000.

By April the stars signed were Clifton Webb, Jean Peters, Gloria Grahame, June Allyson and Cornel Wilde. Wilde did the film as the last movie under an old commitment with Fox. Eventually Van Heflin and Fred MacMurray joined the cast, and Lauren Bacall replaced Grahame and Arlene Dahl replaced Peters. Filming started 3 May.

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