She Couldn't Say No (1941)
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Eve Arden played her first bonafide film-starring role in the 1941 Warner Bros. "B"-picture She Couldn't Say No. A brilliant lawyer, Alice Hinsdale (Arden) is obliged to act as secretary to her legal-eagle fiancé Wallace Turnbull (Roger Pryor) because he can't abide the notion that his wife might be smarter than he. Taking on a breach-of-promise suit, Turnbull represents the defendant, only to discover that the attorney for the plaintiff is none other than newly-liberated Alice. Once before a judge and jury, Alice and her female client resort to "women's tricks" to win the case -- proof positive that She Couldn't Say No is a product of its times. The film's basic premise was used to better effect in the 1949 Tracy-Hepburn starrer Adam's Rib. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Roger Pryor - Wallace Turnbull
- Cliff Edwards - Banjo Page
- Vera Lewis - Pansy Hawkins
- Spencer Charters - Hank Woodcock
- Chester Clute - Ezra Pine
- Zeffie Tilbury - Ma Hawkins
- Frank Mayo - Town Marshal
- Jessie Perry
- Paulette Evans
- Leo White
- Drew Roddy
- Sonny Bupp - Boy
- Glen Cavender - Juror
- Eve Arden - Alice Hinsdale
- Clem Bevans - Eli Potter
- Irving Bacon - Abner
- Ferris Taylor - Judge Josiah Jenkins
- George Irving - Henry Rockwell
- George Guhl - Barber
- Bertha Belmore
- Inez Gay - Mathilda
- Al Lloyd - Man
- Alexis Smith - Gossip
- Creighton Hale - Jasper
- Paul Panzer
- Director(s):
- William B. Clemens
- Writer(s):
- Charles Grayson, Earl W. Baldwin
- Producer(s):
- William Jacobs
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