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Desk Set (released as His Other Woman in the UK) is a 1957 American romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron from the 1955 play of the same name by William Marchant.
- $1,865,000
- Cyril J. Mockridge
- Henry Ephron
Desk Set: Directed by Walter Lang. With Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell. Two extremely strong personalities clash over the computerization of a television network's research department.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Walter Lang
- 1957-08-02
Movie Info. Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) is a library reference clerk stuck in a dead-end relationship with a boring television executive (Gig Young). Her life is thrown into turmoil when ...
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- Spencer Tracy
- Walter Lang
- Twentieth Century Fox
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Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Quotes. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff. Cast & Crew. Read More. Walter Lang. Director. Spencer Tracy. Richard Sumner. Katharine Hepburn. Bunny Watson. Gig Young. Mike Cutler. Joan Blondell. Peg Costello. Dina Merrill.
- Walter Lang, Hal Herman
- Spencer Tracy
Desk Set (1957) Full Cast & Crew. See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro. Directed by. Walter Lang. Writing Credits. Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. Produced by. Henry Ephron. ... producer. Music by. Cyril J. Mockridge. Cinematography by. Leon Shamroy. ... director of photography. Editing by. Robert L. Simpson. ...
Desk Set, American romantic comedy film, released in 1957, that was the first colour movie featuring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. It was one of the earliest movies to deal with the issue of labour anxiety amid the advent of the computer age. Tracy portrayed Richard Sumner, an efficiency.
The mysterious man hanging about at the research department of a big TV network proves to be engineer Richard Sumner, who's been ordered to keep his real purpose secret: computerizing the office. Department head Bunny Watson, who knows everything, needs no computer to unmask Richard.