She Wrote the Book (1946)
Comedy
Overview
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.
Cast
- Joan Davis as Jane Featherstone
- Jack Oakie as Jerry Marlowe
- Mischa Auer as Joe
- Gloria Stuart as Phyllis Fowler
- Kirby Grant as Eddie Caldwell
- Jacqueline deWit as Millicent Van Cleve
- Thurston Hall as Horace Van Cleve
- John Litel as Dean Fowler
- Cora Witherspoon as Carrothers
- Selmer Jackson as Fielding