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Woman's World is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jean Negulesco released in USA on 30 september 1954 with Clifton Webb
Woman's World (1954)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 30 september 1954
Length 1h34
Directed by Jean Negulesco
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Rating68%
Woman's World, also known as A Woman's World, is a 1954 Technicolor drama film about corporate America. Three men compete for the top job at a large company.
Synopsis
When the general manager of Gifford Motors dies, company owner Ernest Gifford (Clifton Webb) invites the three candidates for the position to New York so he can personally evaluate them and their wives. Bill and Katie Baxter (Cornel Wilde and June Allyson) are a loving couple from Kansas City. Elizabeth Burns (Lauren Bacall) is becoming estranged from her driven husband Sidney (Fred MacMurray) because his work is consuming him and undermining his health; she fears a promotion would eventually kill him. Jerry Talbot (Van Heflin), who has a sexy, ambitious wife, Carol (Arlene Dahl), rounds out the trio.Actors
Clifton Webb
(Ernest Gifford)
June Allyson
(Katie Baxter)
Van Heflin
(Jerry Talbot)
Lauren Bacall
(Elizabeth Burns)
Fred MacMurray
(Sid Burns)
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