A Woman of Distinction

A Woman of Distinction

85 mins | Comedy | March 16, 1950

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.

A Woman of Distinction

85 mins | Comedy | March 16, 1950

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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title A Woman of Distinction
Directors Earl Bellamy, Edward Buzzell
Writers Charles Hoffman, Hugo Butler, Ian McLellan Hunter

Cast

Rosalind Russell

as Susan Middlecott

Ray Milland

as Alec Stevenson

Edmund Gwenn

as J.M. Middlecott

Janis Carter

as Teddy Evans

Mary Jane Saunders

as Louisa Middlecott

Francis Lederer

as Paul Simone

Jerome Courtland

as Jerome

Lucille Ball

as Lucille Ball (uncredited)

Helene Stanley

as Minor Role (uncredited)