The Lady Is Willing

The Lady Is Willing (1942)

GAY, ROMANTIC COMEDY AT IT'S BREEZIEST, MERRIEST BEST!

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.

Date of release
1942-02-12
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Romance, Comedy
Director
Mitchell Leisen

Casting

Interesting facts

The Lady is Willing is a 1942 American screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen, produced by Columbia Pictures and starring Marlene Dietrich and Fred MacMurray.

Production

Marlene Dietrich broke her foot tripping on a little red wagon behind a couch early in filming. To hide her injury a double was used in some scenes.

Marlene Dietrich was frustrated by Fred MacMurray's unwillingness to have an affair with her on set. Director Mitchell Leisen told her, “Listen Marlene, Fred’s so much in love with his wife Lilly, he couldn’t care less about any other woman, so you lay off. Just make the picture; forget about making Fred.” MacMurray later recalled, “I had never had anything like this happen on a picture before and it was very embarrassing.”

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