Slightly Dangerous

Slightly Dangerous (1943)

She was cute when mixing sodas in gingham uniforms – but she's georgeous mixing highballs in silks and satins!

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Date of release
1943-04-01
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Wesley Ruggles

Casting

Interesting facts

Slightly Dangerous is a 1943 American screwball comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, and Dame May Whitty. The film follows a bored young woman in a dead-end job who runs away to New York City and ends up impersonating the long-missing daughter of a millionaire. The screenplay was written by Charles Lederer and George Oppenheimer from a story by Aileen Hamilton.

Production

Slightly Dangerous was adapted from a story by Aileen Hamilton by screenwriters Charles Lederer and George Oppenheimer. The lead role of Peggy Evans was specifically written for Turner, "tailored to give her a career-defining moment." The project initially had the working titles Nothing Ventured and Careless Cinderella.

Principal photography of Slightly Dangerous took place between September and November 1942. Turner was pregnant with her daughter, Cheryl, at the time of production, but did not disclose the pregnancy until after production had wrapped in December 1942.

Buster Keaton served as an uncredited joke writer on the film, and is also alleged to have directed the scene in which Turner's character serves ice cream sundaes while blindfolded.

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