She Wrote the Book (1946)
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In this comedy, a puritanical math teacher at a midwestern university is forced by the dean's wife to go to New York to collect the royalties for a naughty romance the latter wrote under a penname. Unfortunately, while there, the professor suffers a blow to the noodle and wakes up believing that she wrote the torrid little tome. Now she finds herself being manipulated by a clever publisher who has the phony writer become passionately involved with a bogus Russian nobleman. Later the woman's memory returns and she goes back to her dull, well-ordered life on campus. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Joan Davis, Jack Oakie, (more)
- Director(s):
- Charles Lamont
Synopsis of She Wrote the Book
In this comedy, a puritanical math teacher at a midwestern university is forced by the dean's wife to go to New York to collect the royalties for a naughty romance the latter wrote under a penname. Unfortunately, while there, the professor suffers a blow to the noodle and wakes up believing that she wrote the torrid little tome. Now she finds herself being manipulated by a clever publisher who has the phony writer become passionately involved with a bogus Russian nobleman. Later the woman's memory returns and she goes back to her dull, well-ordered life on campus. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Complete Cast of She Wrote the Book
- Joan Davis - Jane Featherstone
- Mischa Auer - Boris/Joe
- John Litel - Dean Fowler
- Gloria Stuart - Phyllis Fowler
- Lewis L. Russell - George Dixon
- Victoria Horne - Maid
- Jack J. Ford - Orchestra Leader
- George Bunny - Gardner
- Marie Harmon - Blonde
- Wilbur Mack - Man on Train
- Selmar Jackson - Fielding
- Edgar Dearing - Motorcycle Cop
- Frank Dae - Professor
- Jack Oakie - Jerry Marlowe
- Kirby Grant - Eddie Caldwell
- Jacqueline De Wit - Millicent
- Thurston Hall - Van Cleve
- Raymond Largay - Governor Kilgour
- Verna Felton - Mrs. Kilgour
- Phil Garris - Elevator Boy
- Walden Boyle
- Cora Witherspoon - Carrothers
- Pat Lane - Reporter
- Chester Conklin - Man at Bar
- Olin Howland - Baggage Master
- Director(s):
- Charles Lamont
- Writer(s):
- Oscar Brodney, Warren Wilson
- Producer(s):
- Warren Wilson
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