Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Writer: Leonard Spigelgass

From a play: A Majority of One by Leonard Spigelgass

Music by: Max Steiner

Keywords: Romantic Comedy

Alec Guinness plays a Japanese businessman falls in love with a Jewish widow from Brooklyn. Since her son-in-law is formulating a business deal with Guinness, some might assume the relationship a ploy for negotiating advantage. Despite both leads obviously miscast, they give decent and largely believable performances. Now somewhat dated adaptation of Spigelgass's successful Broadway play, which ran 559 performances.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ray Danton	Actor	19-Sep-1931	11-Feb-1992	The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Alec Guinness	Actor	2-Apr-1914	5-Aug-2000	Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars
Harriet MacGibbon	Actor	5-Oct-1905	8-Feb-1987	Mrs. Drysdale on Beverly Hillbillies
Alan Mowbray	Actor	18-Aug-1896	25-Mar-1969	Founding member, Screen Actors Guild
Madlyn Rhue	Actor	3-Oct-1935	16-Dec-2003	Marjorie Grant on Bracken's World
Rosalind Russell	Actor	4-Jun-1907	28-Nov-1976	Auntie Mame
Gary Vinson	Actor	22-Oct-1936	15-Oct-1984	Christy on McHale's Navy

CAST

Rosalind Russell	...   Mrs. Jacoby
Alec Guinness	...   Koichi Asano
Also Starring
Ray Danton	...   Jerome Black
Madlyn Rhue	...   Alice Black
with
Mae Questal	...   Mrs. Rubin
Marc Marno	...   Eddie
Gary Vinson	...   Mr. McMillon
Sharon Hugueny	...   Bride
Frank Wilcox	...   Noah Putnam
Francis De Sales	...   American Embassy Official
Harriet MacGibbon	...   Mrs. Putnam
Yuki Shimoda	...   Asano's secretary
Alan Mowbray	...   Capt. Norcross

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