Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
- research
- marriage proposal
- slang
- gangster
- professor
- nightclub
- romcom
- encyclopedia
- singer
- us republican party
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gary Cooper
Professor Bertram Potts
Barbara Stanwyck
Sugarpuss O’Shea
Oskar Homolka
Prof. Gurkakoff
Henry Travers
Prof. Jerome
- S.Z. Sakall — Prof. Magenbruch
- Tully Marshall — Prof. Robinson
- Leonid Kinskey — Prof. Quintana
- Richard Haydn — Prof. Oddly
- Aubrey Mather — Prof. Peagram
- Allen Jenkins — Garbage Man
- Dana Andrews — Joe Lilac
- Dan Duryea — Duke Pastrami
- Ralph Peters — Asthma Anderson
- Kathleen Howard — Miss Bragg
- Charles Lane — Larsen
- Directed
- Howard Hawks
- Written
- Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 244 ratings
- Studio
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
