Overview
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.
Crew
DirectorJean Negulesco
Cast
Clifton Webb
Ernest Gifford
June Allyson
Katie Baxter
Cornel Wilde
Bill Baxter
Lauren Bacall
Elizabeth Burns
Fred MacMurray
Sid Burns
Van Heflin
Jerry Talbot
Arlene Dahl
Carol Talbot
Elliott Reid
Tony Andrews
Margalo Gillmore
Mrs. Evelyn Andrews
Alan Reed
Tomaso
David Hoffman
Jabernowski
William H. O'Brien
Servant
Bert Stevens
Doorman
George E. Stone
Executive Reception Guest
Arthur Tovey
Executive Reception Guest
Stuart Hall
Executive Reception Guest (uncredited)
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Keywords
competitionjob interviewambitionwomanhooddressing roomtroubled marriagebusiness competitionlife competitionflirtatious womanclothes shoppingcompany presidentjob candidateleadershipsexy womanbusiness executiveambitious wifecompany owneropenly flirtatious wifeautomobile companyclumsy wife
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Added May 14, 2026Updated Jun 3, 2026