LADY SAYS NO, THE(1951)
A woman who has a hate on for men writes a book
directing women everywhere to "Just say no" to
men! Niven plays a writer for Life magazine and
is in Carmel to do an interview and photo shoot
of said woman!! They hit it off, literally, and
it goes on from there! There's some humor, but
most of this is just boring! Hard to believe this
was shot in the early 50s!! Niven just really isn't
his usual superb self here! C+
From a reviewer at IMDb.com:
Slight romcom set in around 1950s Carmel, California,
where suave bachelor globe-trotting photographer David
Niven is assigned to shoot a best-selling feminist
author, who turns out to be the virginal, cool and
very smartly turned out blonde Joan Caulfield.
At his first tired ploy of getting her to remove
more and more clothes, she ends the shoot by walking
out. Each further advance on his part is met by more
rebuffs, following which she allures him into yet
more humiliation. Even her dreams show attraction
competing with repulsion. Restless, she starts
interfering in the romances and marriages of his
blue-collar friends as well. It has to end, as
we know it will, with her growing up. The little
girl who keeps saying no must become a woman
and learn to say yes.
Good support from, among others, James Robertson
Justice as her errant Irish uncle, Henry Jones
as an amazingly unwarlike army sergeant and
Lenore Lonergan as his battleaxe wife. - Charlot47
Joan Caulfield ... Dorinda Hatch
David Niven ... Bill Shelby
James Robertson Justice ... Matthew Huntington Hatch
Lenore Lonergan ... Goldie
Frances Bavier ... Aunt Alice Hatch
Peggy Maley ... Midge
Henry Jones ... Potsy
Jeff York ... Goose
George Davis ... Wharf Rat Bartender
Robert B. Williams ... Major General Horatio W. Schofield (as Robert Williams)
Mary Lawrence ... Mary
Godon Barnes ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Joan Barton ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Nora Bush ... Woman at Meeting (uncredited)
Barbara Carroll ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Sue Casey ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Peter Damon ... Minor Role (uncredited)
George DeNormand ... Brawler (uncredited)
Helen Dickson ... Woman at Tea (uncredited)
Mary Gleason ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Louise Lane ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Melodi Lowell ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Rory Mallinson ... Police Officer (uncredited)
James McGill ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Brian McKay ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Cheerio Meredith ... Woman at Tea (uncredited)
Eddie Parker ... Al - Brawler (uncredited)
John Pickard ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Jessie Proctor ... Woman at Meeting (uncredited)
Anthony Radecki ... Minor Role (uncredited)
John Rowan ... Minor Role (uncredited)
George Sawaya ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Hazel Shaw ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Don Shelton ... Minor Role (uncredited)
James Stevens ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Anthony Sydes ... Boy Delivering Photo (uncredited)
George Wallace ... Police Officer (uncredited)
Guy Way ... Soldier (uncredited)
Alice Wellman ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Chalky Williams ... Horace (uncredited)
Bud Wolfe ... Brawler (uncredited)
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