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The Devil and Miss Jones is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Sam Wood released in USA on 11 april 1941 with Jean Arthur
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
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Add to a movie listThe Devil and Miss Jones is a 1941 comedy film starring Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn. Directed by Sam Wood and scripted by Norman Krasna, the film was the product of an independent collaboration between Krasna and producer Frank Ross (Jean Arthur's husband). Their short-lived production company released two films through RKO Radio Pictures (Miss Jones and 1943's A Lady Takes a Chance). The film was well received by critics upon its release and garnered Academy Award nominations for Coburn and Krasna.
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Cantankerous tycoon John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn) goes undercover as a shoe clerk at his own New York department store to identify agitators trying to form a union, after seeing a newspaper picture of his employees hanging him in effigy. He befriends fellow clerk Mary Jones (Jean Arthur) and her recently fired boyfriend Joe O'Brien (Robert Cummings), a labor union organizer. Through his firsthand experiences, he grows more sympathetic to the needs of his workers, while finding unexpected love with sweet-natured clerk Elizabeth Ellis (Spring Byington).Actors
Jean Arthur
(Mary Jones)
Charles Coburn
(John P. Merrick/Thomas Higgins)
Pat Flaherty
Robert Cummings
(Joe O'Brien)
Edmund Gwenn
(Hooper)
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