I've seen this film many times and never realized the very hungry blonde was the wife of Louis Calhern's character. It was only after watching it on TCM yesterday that i paid attention to the entire list of credits and saw Lucille Knoch played Mrs George Nyle Caswell. I thought she was another blonde bimbo piece of arm candy for him like Marilyn Monroe in 'The Asphalt Jungle'. (lol)
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I've always wondered whether that "Mrs." was real or sarcastic (or just being sensitive to the production code of the time). She certainly acted like (and was treated as) a mistress. Remember how when they were at the Stork Club and he was refusing to let her order dinner, she tells the man from whom he borrowed the newspaper, "You'll have to excuse my friend -- he likes to read when he doesn't eat!" I don't think a wife would have referred to her husband as her "friend", even out of anger or as a joke.
shareMaybe. There are some movies out there in which the wife is treated like a mistress and the husband like some 'friend'. Who knows? Maybe the book says?
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