The Talk of the Town
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The Talk of the Town

Year:
Duration:
118 min
Genres:
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Thriller
IMDB rate:
7.7
Director:
George Stevens
Awards:
Nominated for 7 Oscars.
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1942-08-20
Cast
Actor
Character
Cary Grant
Leopold Dilg
Jean Arthur
Nora Shelley
Ronald Colman
Professor Michael Lightcap
Glenda Farrell
Regina Bush
Charles Dingle
Andrew Holmes
Emma Dunn
Mrs. Shelley
Rex Ingram
Tilney
Leonid Kinskey
Jan Pulaski
Tom Tyler
Clyde Bracken
Don Beddoe
Police Chief
Sam Ash
Supreme Court Spectator (uncredited)
Dorothy Babb
Schoolgirl Noticing Beard (uncredited)
Georgia Backus
Townswoman (uncredited)
Holger Bendixen
Townsman (uncredited)
William 'Billy' Benedict
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Ferike Boros
Mrs. Pulaski (uncredited)
Al Bridge
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Lloyd Bridges
Donald Forrester (uncredited)
Leslie Brooks
Secretary (uncredited)
Eddie Bruce
Reporter (uncredited)
Jack Carr
Usher (uncredited)
Eddie Coke
Reporter (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Joe Cunningham
McGuire (uncredited)
Lew Davis
Waiter at Regina's Shop (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
Cop on Stairs (uncredited)
Al Ferguson
Detective (uncredited)
Clyde Fillmore
Senator James Boyd (uncredited)
Joe Garcio
Townsman (uncredited)
Jack Gardner
Cameraman with Forrester (uncredited)
Bud Geary
Townsman (uncredited)
William Gould
Sheriff with Hounds (uncredited)
Jay Guedillio
Man (uncredited)
Dave Harper
Townsman (uncredited)
Edward Hearn
Sergeant (uncredited)
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian
Mob Member Carrying Rope (uncredited)
George Hickman
Townsman (uncredited)
Maynard Holmes
Vendor (uncredited)
Dick Jensen
Townsman (uncredited)
Robert Keats
Man (uncredited)
Stubby Kruger
Baseball Player (uncredited)
William Lally
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Eddie Laughton
Henry, Photographer (uncredited)
Jack Low
Workman (uncredited)
Herman Marks
Townsman (uncredited)
Frank McClure
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Joe McGuinn
Jailer Overpowered by Dilg (uncredited)
Patrick McVey
First Policeman (uncredited)
Frank Mills
Townsman (uncredited)
Clarence Muse
Supreme Court Doorkeeper (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Blanche Payson
Supreme Court Spectator (uncredited)
Charles Perry
Townsman (uncredited)
Ralph Peters
Eddie, Moving Man (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Detective (uncredited)
Lee Prather
Sergeant At Arms (uncredited)
Al Rhein
Townsman (uncredited)
Dewey Robinson
Jake (uncredited)
Cy Schindell
Townsman at Ballgame (uncredited)
Dan Seymour
Headwaiter at Nightclub (uncredited)
Jack Shea
Reporter (uncredited)
Roberta Smith
Schoolgirl Noticing Beard (uncredited)
Charles St. George
Townsman (uncredited)
Frank Sully
Policeman in Station Wagon (uncredited)
Frank M. Thomas
District Attorney Scott (uncredited)
Mabel Todd
Operator (uncredited)
Victor Travers
Townsman (uncredited)
Lelah Tyler
Townswoman (uncredited)
John Tyrrell
Townsman at Ballgame (uncredited)
Ralph Volkie
Townsman (uncredited)
Max Wagner
Moving Man (uncredited)
Robert Walker
Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
George Watts
Judge Grunstadt (uncredited)
Lee 'Lasses' White
Hound Keeper (uncredited)
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Trivia
Jean Arthur was 41 when she made this film.
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A radio theatre presentation of The Talk of the Town (1942) was broadcast on CBS radio on the Lux Radio Theatre on 5/17/1943; with Cary Grant, Ronald Colman and Jean Arthur recreating their roles from the movie. It's a 60 minute adaptation of the movie.
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The studio considered filming two different endings, with Jean Arthur pairing off with Cary Grant in one, and with Ronald Colman in the other, and letting the audience decide by voting in sneak previews which one they preferred. However, in the papers of director George Stevens, all the screenplay drafts contained the current ending. In one draft, an additional unrelated scene was added, but dropped during production.
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Goofs
After escaping from jail one evening and spending the entire night hidden away in an attic with no access to plumbing, Dilg awakes cleanly shaved the next morning.
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After Nora forcibly invites the policeman at the roadblock into her front seat, he takes out and lights a cigarette. One second later the cigarette is gone.
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The brilliant and highly-educated Professor Lightcap says he follows "a rather strict regime" instead of "regimen".
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Quotes
Michael Lightcap: This is your law and your finest possession - it makes you free men in a free country. Why have you come here to destroy it? If you know what's good for you, take those weapons home and burn them! And then think... think of this country and of the law that makes it what it is. Think of a world crying for this very law! And maybe you'll understand why you ought to guard it. Why the law has got to be the personal concern of every citizen. To uphold it for your neighbor as well as yourself. Violence against it is one mistake. Another mistake is for any man to look upon the law as just a set of principles. And just so much language printed on fine, heavy paper. Something he recites and then leans back and takes it for granted that justice is automatically being done. Both kinds of men are equally wrong! The law must be engraved in our hearts and practiced every minute to the letter and spirit. It can't even exist unless we're willing to go down into the dust and blood and fight a battle every day of our lives to preserve it. For our neighbor as well as ourself!
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Leopold Dilg: With these indoor habits of yours, you've got the complexion of a gravel pit.
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Michael Lightcap: Look at me, a dream of twenty years come true. More happiness than any man deserves, that chair. But now there's something Else, Nora: My friends. I want to see them as happy as I am. Nothing less will do. And Leopold, what a fine fellow - and I've been thinking, Nora, that if someone were to take his hand and say "Leopold, my wreckless friend, here's love and companionship, forever." Well, some day that man would... You see what I mean, Nora?
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Photos from cast
Edgar Buchanan
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