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Jerry Ryan, a Nebraska lawyer, has separated from his wife Tess and moved to New York City, where he rents a shabby apartment and takes long walks at night. He is studying for the New York bar exam while his divorce from Tess is still being finalized. He finds work at a law firm in the city. At a party in the city he meets Gittel Mosca, a dancer who is struggling to build a career, and the two get along at once. They begin to fall in love, but their different backgrounds and temperaments work against them, and Jerry cannot separate himself emotionally from Tess.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Two for the Seesaw (1962)
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- Elizabeth Taylor was signed to star in Two for the Seesaw with Gregory Peck possibly co-starring, and Paul Newman was later slated opposite Taylor. When Taylor dropped out because of shooting overruns on Cleopatra, Newman became free to take the role of 'Fast Eddie' Felson in The Hustler.
- Shirley MacLaine later said that she and Robert Mitchum began a relationship while filming Two for the Seesaw, and that it lasted three years.
- "Second Chance," the title tune from Two for the Seesaw, became a pop music and jazz standard and was recorded by Sammy Davis Jr. and other artists.
