A Lady Takes a Chance

• Director: William Seiter
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Comedy
• Movie Type: Romantic Comedy
• Themes: Opposites Attract, Fish Out of Water
• Main Cast: Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles Winninger, Phil Silvers, Mary Field
• Release Year: 1943
• Country: US
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• MPAA Rating: NR

Plot

Manhattan working girl Jean Arthur bids goodbye to her three erstwhile suitors (Grant Withers, Hans Conried and Grady Sutton) to take a bus tour of the west. En route, she meets handsome rodeo-star John Wayne, whose bucking bronco hurls him directly into her lap. Stranded in a tank town with Wayne and his sidekick Charles Winninger, Arthur is introduced to the sort of frontier activities not covered by the tour books: gambling, boozing and brawling. Not surprisingly, Arthur wants to hightail it back to the East, but by now Wayne has fallen in love with her. Lady Takes a Chance was produced for RKO by Jean Arthur's then-husband, Frank Ross. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Jean Arthur - Mollie Truesdale
• John Wayne - Duke Hudkins
• Charles Winninger - Waco
• Phil Silvers - Smiley Lambert
• Mary Field - Florrie Bendix

Don Costello - Drunk; John Philliber - Storekeeper; Grady Sutton - Malcolm; Grant Withers - Bob; Hans Conried - Gregg; Peggy Carroll - Jitterbug; Ariel Heath - Flossie; Sugar Geise - Linda Belle; Joan Blair - Lilly; Tom Fadden - Mullen; Charles D. Brown - Dr. Humbolt; Cy Kendall - Gambling House Boss; Alex Melesh - Bartender; Jean Stevens - Jitterbug; Eddy Waller - Bus station attendant; Butch and Buddy; Paul Scott - 2nd Bartender; Nena Quartaro - Carmencita

Credit

Albert S. D'Agostino - Art Director, Alfred Herman - Art Director, Richard Ross - Associate Producer, William Seiter - Director, Theron Warth - Editor, Roy Webb - Composer (Music Score), Constantin Bakaleinikoff - Musical Direction/Supervision, Frank Redman - Cinematographer, Frank Ross - Producer, Vernon Walker - Special Effects, Robert Ardrey - Screenwriter, Jo Swerling - Short Story Author

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