People Will Talk

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People Will Talk

People Will Talk DVD cover
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck
Written by Curt Goetz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring Cary Grant
Jeanne Crain
Hume Cronyn
Finlay Currie
Walter Slezak
Sidney Blackmer
Cinematography Milton Krasner
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) 1951
Running time 110 min.
Country US
Language English
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People Will Talk is a 1951 20th Century Fox film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck from a screenplay by Mankiewicz, based on the play by Curt Goetz. It stars Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain, with supporting performances by Hume Cronyn, Finlay Currie, Walter Slezak, and Sidney Blackmer. An intelligent, if somewhat talky, comedy in the Mankiewicz style, People Will Talk was unusual for its day in its adult themes.

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Grant is Noah Praetorius, a doctor with unorthodox but effective methods of treating patients. Crain portrays an unmarried pregnant woman, who Dr. Praetorius first treats and later marries. Cronyn plays Dr. Elwell, an envious colleague of Dr. Praetorius, who attempts to discredit him before a board of review.

Dr. Elwell: Do you deny that at that time, your patients were under the impression that you were a butcher, and not a doctor?

Dr. Praetorius: Do you prefer the impression given to their patients by so many of our colleagues that they are doctors, and not butchers?

People Will Talk was nominated for the Writers Guild of America screen Award for Best Written American Comedy (Joseph L. Mankiewicz).

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