A Woman of Distinction

Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect; matters get more and more involved.

Cast

Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell

as Susan Manning Middlecott

Ray Milland

Ray Milland

as Alexander "Alec" Stevenson

Edmund Gwenn

Edmund Gwenn

as J.D. Middlecott

Janis Carter

Janis Carter

as Teddy Evans

Mary Jane Saunders

Mary Jane Saunders

as Louisa Middlecott

Francis Lederer

Francis Lederer

as Paul Simone

Jerome Courtland

Jerome Courtland

as Jerome

Clifton Young

Clifton Young

as Chet

Gale Gordon

Gale Gordon

as Postal Clerk

Harry Tyler

Harry Tyler

as Cabbie

Reviews

CinemaSerf

There is quite a bit of chemistry here between Ray Milland's "Prof. Stevenson" - a British astronomy geek somewhat reluctantly doing the lecture tour rounds in the US of A; and the stiff-as-starch college dean "Susan" (Rosalind Russell). The former has something he wishes to return to the latter - a...

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