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.

Rosalind Russell
as Susan Manning Middlecott

Ray Milland
as Alexander "Alec" Stevenson

Edmund Gwenn
as J.D. Middlecott

Janis Carter
as Teddy Evans

Mary Jane Saunders
as Louisa Middlecott

Francis Lederer
as Paul Simone

Jerome Courtland
as Jerome

Clifton Young
as Chet

Gale Gordon
as Postal Clerk

Harry Tyler
as Cabbie
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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...