The Talk of the Town (1942)

19421h 57mdir. George StevensUnited Statesromantic comedy filmdrama film

With Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Rex Ingram, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, Tom Tyler, Emma Dunn

Directed by George Stevens

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The Talk of the Town is a 1942 American comedy-drama film directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Ronald Colman, with a supporting cast featuring Edgar Buchanan and Glenda Farrell. The screenplay was written by Irwin Shaw and Sidney Buchman (and an adaptation by Dale Van Every) from a story by Sidney Harmon. The film was released by Columbia Pictures, and was the second time that Grant and Arthur were paired in a film, after Only Angels Have Wings (1939).

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