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The film Woman's World (1954)

posted 9 years ago by mojo2004
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This movie could be a bookend film with 'Woman's World' (1954), which was also released in 1954. Almost the same scenario but with auto industry mogul (Clifton Webb) inviting his best salesmen who all lived in different cities , to his estate for the weekend with their wives. He's looking to appoint a general manager. June Allyson was also in this, now again playing the dutiful but dowdy out-of-place small town wife of Fred McMurray (same personality as Walling) with the other wives being fashion & business savy.

I love it when both of them air but 'Executive Suite' is my favorite. Louis Calhern steals the movie. I love him.

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[–] hobnob53 9 years ago

I like Woman's World too but it can't compare with Executive Suite. WW is a glossy film that's as superficial as its characters. June Allyson, never a favorite of mine, is pretty good in ES but is absolutely insipid, overbearing and obnoxious in WW, though this is less her fault than the stupid character written for her.

By the way, in WW June plays the wife of Cornel Wilde, not Fred MacMurray; his wife is played by Lauren Bacall. Also, I don't at all agree that MacMurray's character has the same personality as Don Walling (William Holden) in ES. MacMurray's ambitious to the point of endangering his life and marriage, which Walling definitely is not. There's no real cognate between the characters in the two movies, but Walling's character is probably closest to Van Heflin's in WW.