Tell It to the Judge (1949) on Netflix
Nominated for a federal judgeship, Marsha Meredith faces a Good-Government group that calls her divorce disqualifying. Her ex-husband, Peter Webb, arrives in Palm Beach to take a deposition.
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Plot summary
A Senate committee weighs the nomination of Marsha Meredith, a lawyer, for a federal judgeship, and asks her about her divorce from Peter Webb. A Good-Government group holds that a divorced woman is unfit for the bench. Marsha returns to her home in Palm Beach, Florida. Peter turns up there as well, questioning the showgirl Ginger Simmons for the defense of the gangster George Ellerby. Jealous at the sight of her former husband with another woman, Marsha leaves a bar with Alexander Darvac and goes with him to a gambling place, which is raided. Peter steps in before the raid reaches the newspapers.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tell It to the Judge (1949)
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- The film was first announced in June 1948 as a vehicle for Lucille Ball under the title What My Next Husband Will Be, but by October 1948 the lead had gone to Rosalind Russell.
- Norman Foster directed the film, which began shooting on 5 April 1949, but the following month Charles Vidor was called in to direct re-takes.
