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Liza Madden (Marlene Dietrich) is a single and independent Broadway star who, when she discovers an abandoned baby, is suddenly stricken with motherly instinct. She needs to be married in order...
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The Lady Is Willing: Directed by Mitchell Leisen. With Marlene Dietrich, Fred MacMurray, Aline MacMahon, Stanley Ridges. In order to adopt an abandoned baby, an actress arranges a marriage of convenience with a doctor.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Mitchell Leisen
The Lady is Willing is a 1942 American screwball comedy film produced by Columbia Pictures, starring Marlene Dietrich and Fred MacMurray, directed by Mitchell Leisen. [1]
With this amount of promise, it is a shame that 'The Lady is Willing' wasn't better. It is let down by the more dramatic elements and latter parts of the film. The melodramatic change of tone just jars uneasily, the melodrama coming over as overwrought soap-opera, while the ending is more maudlin than it is touching and the pace loses lustre.
That said, however, the final act goes full-on Douglas Sirk levels of medical melodrama, complete with Dietrich's character suddenly becoming weepy and entirely helpless, a transformation which comes close to undermining all of the goodwill that had been built to that point.
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- Columbia Pictures
- Mitchell Leisen
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable.
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The Lady is Willing is a 1942 American screwball comedy film produced by Columbia Pictures, starring Marlene Dietrich and Fred MacMurray, directed by Mitchell Leisen. [1]
