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The Man Who Understood Women

  • Director: Nunnally Johnson
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Comedy Drama
  • Movie Type: Farce
  • Main Cast: Leslie Caron, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova, Myron McCormick, Marcel Dalio
  • Release Year: 1959
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 105 minutes

Plot

After making Man Who Understood Women and seeing that the result was an ill-realized, uneven combination of Hollywood satire and tear-jerking melodrama, star Henry Fonda did not make another film until almost three years later. The story centers on a Hollywood producer who becomes so obsessed with turning his wife Leslie Caron into the sexiest star in Hollywood that he neglects her real needs. Feeling lonely and tired of Tinseltown, Caron returns to her native France and finds herself attracted to the handsome and very attentive pilot Cesare Danova. When Fonda hears about the budding affair, he flies into a rage and hires assassins to kill his rival. Unfortunately for him, the killers are romantics and decide that Caron and Danova are so in love that both must die so they can be together always. When Fonda finds out, he rushes over to France to try and save his wife. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

Conrad Nagel - G. K.; Edwin Jerome - The Baron; Harry Ellerbe - Kress; Frank Cady - Milstead; Ben A. Astar - French Doctor; Bernd Hoffmann - Soprano

Credit

Charles LeMaire - Costume Designer, Nunnally Johnson - Director, Marjorie Fowler - Editor, Robert Emmett Dolan - Composer (Music Score), Earle Hagen - Musical Direction/Supervision, Maurice Ransford - Production Designer, Lyle Wheeler - Production Designer, Milton Krasner - Cinematographer, Nunnally Johnson - Producer, Paul S. Fox - Set Designer, Walter Scott - Set Designer, L.B. Abbott - Special Effects, Charles Peck - Sound/Sound Designer, Harry M. Leonard - Sound/Sound Designer, Nunnally Johnson - Screenwriter, Romain Gary - Book Author
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The Man Who Understood Women
Directed by Nunnally Johnson
Starring Henry Fonda
Leslie Caron
Renate Hoy
Cesare Danova
Studio 20th Century Fox
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) 1959
Running time 135 min
Country USA
Language English

The Man Who Understood Women is a 1959 film written and directed by Nunnally Johnson from a novel by Romain Gary, and starring Henry Fonda, Leslie Caron, Renate Hoy and Cesare Danova.

Plot

Willie Bauche, a Hollywood producer, becomes so obsessed with turning his wife, Ann Garantier, into the sexiest star in Hollywood that he neglects her real needs. Feeling lonely and tired of Tinseltown, Ann returns to her native France and finds herself attracted to Marco Ranieri, a handsome and very attentive pilot. When Willie hears about the budding affair, he flies into a rage and hires assassins to kill his rival. Unfortunately for him, the killers are romantics and decide that Ann and Marco are so in love that both must die so they can be together always. When Willie finds out, he rushes over to France to try and save his wife.

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