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教授と美女 [DVD] 価格:3,846円 (2019/9/3 11:08時点) 感想(1件)

Plot
A group of professors, all bachelor except for a widower, have lived together for some years in a New York City residence, compiling an encyclopedia of all human knowledge. The youngest, Professor Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper), is a grammarian who is researching modern American slang. The professors are accustomed to working in relative seclusion at a leisurely pace with a prim housekeeper, Miss Bragg, keeping watch over them. Their impatient financial backer, Miss Totten, suddenly demands that they finish their work soon.
Venturing out to do some independent research, Bertram becomes interested in the slang vocabulary of nightclub performer "Sugarpuss" O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck). She is reluctant to assist him in his research until she suddenly needs a place to hide from the police, who want to question her about her boyfriend, mob boss Joe Lilac. Sugarpuss takes refuge in the house where the professors live and work, despite Bertram's objections and their housekeeper's threat to leave because of her. In the meantime, Joe decides to marry her, but only because as his wife she would not be able to testify against him.
The professors soon become enamored of her femininity, and she begins to grow fond of them. Sugarpuss teaches them to conga and demonstrates to Bertram the meaning of the phrase "yum yum" kisses. She becomes attracted to Bertram, who reciprocates by proposing marriage to her. She avoids giving him an answer to the proposal, and agrees to Joe's plan to have the professors drive her to New Jersey to marry him. After a series of misadventures, including a car crash, Sugarpuss realizes that she is in love with Bertram, but is forced to go ahead with her marriage to Joe to save the professors from his henchmen. Bertram, meanwhile, unaware of Sugarpuss' love for him, prepares to resume his research, sadder but wiser, until he discovers her true feelings.
The professors eventually outwit Joe and his henchmen and rescue Sugarpuss. She decides she is not good enough for Bertram, but his forceful application of a kiss changes her mind.





Cast
Gary Cooper as Professor Bertram Potts　ゲイリー・クーパー
Barbara Stanwyck as Katherine "Sugarpuss" O'Shea　バーバラ・スタンウィック
Dana Andrews as Joe Lilac　ダナ・アンドリュース
Oskar Homolka as Professor Gurkakoff　オスカー・ホモルカ
Henry Travers as Professor Jerome ヘンリー・トラヴァース
S.Z. Sakall as Professor Magenbruch　S・Z・サカール

写真：

1941年公開の「教授と美女」。
ハワード・ホークス監督、ゲイリー・クーパー、バーバラ・スタンウィック主演。
ビリー・ワイルダーは脚本家として参加。

8人の教授たちが百科事典を作るという話。
なかなか興味深い設定です。
百科事典の編集というのものは相当時間がかかるらしいですからね。
年単位でかかるのが普通。
8人の教授たちは「白雪姫」に出てくる「七人のこびと」をモチーフにしている。
というかこの話自体が「白雪姫」を題材にしていると言ってもいい。

出演者に合った役だし、脚本を機知に富んでいる。
なかなか良いスクリューボール・コメディであった。