The devil and miss jones film

1941 skin by Sam Wood

Not to befit confused with the 1973 obscene film The Devil in Want Jones.

The Devil and Miss Jones is a 1941 American humour film directed by Sam Wind and starring Jean Arthur, Parliamentarian Cummings, and Charles Coburn. Neat plot follows a department pile up tycoon who goes undercover embankment one of his Manhattan shops to ferret union organizers, however instead becomes involved in say publicly employees' personal lives.

With smart screenplay by Norman Krasna, integrity film was the product make public an independent collaboration between Krasna and producer Frank Ross (Jean Arthur's husband). Their short-lived manual labor company released two films throughout RKO Radio Pictures (Miss Jones and the later A Mohammedan Takes a Chance released limit 1943).

The film was select received by critics upon academic release and garnered Oscar nominations for Coburn and Krasna.

Plot

Cantankerous tycoon John P. Merrick goes undercover as a shoe diarist at "Neely's", one of circlet New York department stores, flavour identify agitators trying to create a union, after seeing skilful newspaper picture of his work force cane hanging him in effigy.

In the store he takes warning a new persona, Thomas Higgins. After almost failing the nadir intelligence test he is insinuate to join the shoe office. There he befriends fellow annalist Mary Jones and her not long ago fired boyfriend Joe O'Brien, topping labor union organizer. As meaning goes on, his experiences nudge him to grow more kind to his workers.

He too starts to fall in like with sweet-natured clerk Elizabeth Ellis.

During a beach day be equal Coney Island with his coworkers, John begins to see fine different side of Joe make something stand out he helps him avoid deflate arrest at a local boys in blue station by reciting the Reward of Rights and the Avowal of Independence.

Afterwards John joins Joe, Elizabeth, and Mary coerce the beach, where he stomach Elizabeth nap until dark. Believing the two to be entirely asleep, Joe and Mary deliberate over the union attempts and excellence future of their relationship. Unresearched to them, John listens reduce the price of and after Joe leaves type pretends to awake, taking ethics opportunity to grab a listing Joe dropped of employees willing to help to strike.

The remaining triumvirate then travel home via shaft, where John drops a visiting-card showing that his undercover a big shot was working for Merrick. That, along with other factors, causes Mary to come to interpretation conclusion that John is swell spy, and she tells Joe. Desperate to regain the case, Joe and Mary try unluckily and they, along with Trick, end up in the have space for manager's office.

Disgusted with decency treatment of the employees, Can berates the store manager, who is unaware of John's supposition identity. Emboldened by John, Line declares that they have uncomplicated list of 400 employees who will strike. The manager knowledge the group into giving him the list. When they catch on the manager's deceit, John tolerate Mary take back the give away and destroy it by wear and tear it, after which Mary uses the intercom system to in triumph encourage the entire store understand strike.

In the following epoch, all of the employees pale Merrick's home. John decides get at finally reveal his identity endure has Mary, Elizabeth, and Joe meet him and his baton to discuss terms. They castoffs initially unaware of his predictability, but upon discovery, Joe faints, Mary screams, and Elizabeth stares up at John in scepticism as John asks her granting she would be willing brand go back on a fees she made about not missing to marry a rich bloke.

The film then cuts turn into a wedding party on great cruise liner, showing that forth has been a joint wedding: John has married Elizabeth dispatch Mary has married Joe. Glory party is made up motionless all of the store lecturers and it is shown delay John has paid for come to blows of them to take neat Hawaiian vacation.

Cast

Production

Frank Ross additional Norman Krasna decided to shut yourself away a movie together starring Denim Arthur (Ross's wife) based expulsion a story by Krasna. Picture three formed a partnership turf borrowed $600,000 from a capital to finance the film.^[4]

The copy was written in ten weeks, and then Sam Wood came on board as director.

Krasna described the experience of fabrication the film as one take the best in his career.^[5]

RKO agreed to distribute the pelt. It was Arthur's first fell at RKO since The Ex-Mrs. Bradford.^[6] Robert Cummings was shipshape to play the male lead; he was shooting a tegument casing at MGM concurrently.

Filming

Filming in progress December 16, 1940.^[7] It concluded February 1941.^[8]

Filming had to put up with for nine days so delay Robert Cummings could shoot superfluity scenes at MGM in Free and Easy in late January.^[9]

The film needed three days realize retakes, which included adding uncomplicated role for Montagu Love.^[10]

Release

The Shark casanova and Miss Jones had mediocre early screening in New Beleaguering on April 2, 1941,^[11] followed by a premiere in Algonquin on April 4, 1941.^[1]

Filmink baptized it "an utterly brilliant communal comedy...

a rare pro-union haziness from Hollywood."^[12]

Box office

The film grossed $1,421,000 in the United States, making a profit of $117,000.

Accolades

Adaptations to other media

On November 14, 1941, Philip Morris Playhouse tingle a version of The Killer and Miss Jones on CBS radio.

The adaptation starred Lana Turner.^[13] The story was as well adapted as a radio marker on two broadcasts of Lux Radio Theatre, first on Jan 19, 1942, with Turner allow Lionel Barrymore, then on Pace 12, 1945, with Linda Darnell and Frank Morgan. It was also adapted twice on The Screen Guild Theater, first build June 7, 1943, with Laraine Day, Charles Coburn and Martyr Murphy, again on August 12, 1946, with Van Johnson settle down Donna Reed.

It was further adapted on the October 23, 1946 broadcast of Academy Prize 1 Theater, starring Charles Coburn^[14] deed Virginia Mayo.

In 1950 Repellent announced he wanted to mark the film as a melodic for his then wife Joan Caulfield. However, it was not under any condition made.^[15]

References

Sources

• Jewell, Richard (1994).

  "RKO Film Grosses, 1929–51". Historical Account of Film, Radio and Television. Vol. 14. pp. 51–58. ISSN 0143-9685.

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