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Perfect Strangers is a american film of genre Drama directed by Bretaigne Windust released in USA on 11 march 1950 with Ginger Rogers
Perfect Strangers (1950)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 11 march 1950
Length 1h28
Directed by Bretaigne Windust
OriginUSA
Themes Films based on plays
Rating60%
Perfect Strangers is a 1950 American comedy-drama directed by Bretaigne Windust. The screenplay for the Warner Bros. release by Edith Sommer was based on an adaptation of the 1939 Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play Ladies and Gentlemen by George Oppenheimer. This 1939 play was based on an earlier Hungarian play, Twelve in a Box written by Lazlo Bush-Fekete.
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Terry Scott (Ginger Rogers), who is separated from her husband, and unhappily married David Campbell (Dennis Morgan), the father of two children, meet when they are selected to serve on the jury of the Los Angeles trial of Ernest Craig (Ford Rainey). The defendant is charged with murdering his wife when she refused to grant him a divorce. While sequestered during the lengthy proceedings, Terry and David get to know each other and fall in love. Some dramatic tension is added to the plot by juror Isobel Bradford (Margalo Gillmore), a snobby socialite who tries to sway the panel to vote for the death penalty.Actors
Ginger Rogers
(Terry Scott)
Dennis Morgan
(David Campbell)
Thelma Ritter
(Lena Fassler)
Margalo Gillmore
(Isobel Bradford)
Alan Reed
(Harry Patullo)
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