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Anna Kalman, a famous London stage actress, has grown bored with her latest romance and returned early from a trip to Mallorca. Margaret, her sister, and Margaret's husband Alfred Munson bring Philip Adams to her apartment. Philip is an American economist whom Alfred hopes to recruit for a NATO post in Paris, and the Munsons want Anna to come to his dinner lecture rather than spend the evening alone. His jokes about dull speeches win her over. When she invites him to the ballet, he tells her he is married and separated and cannot divorce; she repeats the invitation and he accepts. Philip takes the Paris post so he can travel to London often, and their romance deepens, until a five-month transfer to New York threatens to keep them apart.
Cast
- David Cooteas Charles
- Middleton Woodsas Finleigh's clerk
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Indiscreet (1958)
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- No studio wanted the film rights to Norman Krasna's play Kind Sir, so Krasna bought them himself for $10,000 from his own co-producers, Joshua Logan, Mary Martin and Charles Boyer. He did not mention to them that he had already lined up Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.
- The first version announced was a very different picture. In March 1955 United Artists said Krasna would direct it himself, with Clark Gable as the male star and either Marilyn Monroe or Jayne Mansfield opposite him.
- The film exists because of a chain of conditions. Stanley Donen agreed to direct "but only with Cary"; Grant agreed only if Ingrid Bergman played opposite him; and Bergman agreed only if it could be shot in England, because she had a theater commitment in Paris.
- The scenes set in the Players' Club were shot inside the real Garrick Club in London. The club let the crew through its doors on one condition: the film was not allowed to use the Garrick name.
