Who Was That Lady? (1960) on Netflix
Approved19601h 55mComedyRomance
Chemistry professor David Wilson is caught kissing a transfer student by his wife Ann, who wants a divorce. His friend Mike Haney advises him to say he is an undercover FBI agent.
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Plot summary
David Wilson teaches chemistry at Columbia University, and his wife Ann sees a grateful transfer student kiss him. Ann asks for a divorce, and David turns to his friend Mike Haney, a television writer, for a way to repair the marriage. Mike's plan is a lie: David should say the kiss belonged to his work as an undercover FBI agent, that national security demanded it. A friend of Mike's who works with props supplies a fake identification and a gun, and Ann believes the story. Thrilled by the thought of a husband with a secret job, she talks about it, and word of the forged identification reaches the real FBI.
Cast
- Marion Javitsas Miss Mellish
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Who Was That Lady? (1960)
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- Debbie Reynolds signed in March 1959 to star alongside Dean Martin and Tony Curtis, when Martin was earning $200,000 a film, but by May she had dropped out and was replaced by Janet Leigh, then married to Curtis.
- Norman Krasna was sued for $500,000 by writer Valentine Davies, who claimed Krasna had used material from his work Love Must Go On. After Davies died in 1961 his widow continued the suit for $1.5 million, and the 1962 trial heard evidence from Groucho Marx.
- Director George Sidney was so taken with Janet Leigh's performance that he signed her for three more films: Pepe, Diamond Bikini (which was never made) and Bye Bye Birdie.
