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The Feminine Touch
The Feminine Touch
	Film poster
Directed by	W. S. Van Dyke
Written by	George Oppenheimer; Edmund L. Hartmann; Ogden Nash
Produced by	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring	Rosalind Russell; Don Ameche; Kay Francis
Cinematography	Ray June
Edited by	Albert Akst
Music by	Franz Waxman
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	October 1941;
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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The Feminine Touch is a 1941 American comedy film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, and starring Rosalind Russell and Don Ameche.^[1]

Plot

College professor John Hathaway (Don Ameche) is writing a book about jealousy and how he doesn't believe in it. He isn't the least bit perturbed, for example, when his lovely wife Julie (Rosiland Russell) is the object of desire in the eyes of the school's football star, Rubber Legs Ryan (Gordon Jones).

John goes to New York to meet with publisher Elliott Morgan (Van Heflin) and meets associate Nellie Woods (Kay Francis), who loves Elliott but can't get him to commit. Elliott is infatuated with John's wife Julie, but after a while he realizes that she is faithful to her husband. Julie, though, continues to be irked at John's complete lack of jealousy.

A misunderstanding leads to John being placed under arrest. Elliott's failure to help him or to contact lawyer Freddie Bond as promised is maddening to Julie, who wants John to knock his block off. She also catches John and Nellie in an embrace and turns red with jealous rage, which puzzles John because they were merely celebrating his book sale.

Nellie's threat to quit finally gets Elliott to propose, but one day John finally explodes and strikes him, which leads to a fight between the two women, too. By the time a total stranger calls his wife "sugar" on the street, John is ready to come up swinging.

Cast

Rosalind Russell as Julie Hathaway
Don Ameche as Prof. John Hathaway
Kay Francis as Nellie Woods
Van Heflin as Elliott Morgan
Donald Meek as Capt. Makepeace Liveright
Gordon Jones as Rubber-Legs Ryan
Henry Daniell as Shelley Mason
Sidney Blackmer as Freddie Bond
Grant Mitchell as Dean Hutchinson
David Clyde as Brighton
Julie Gibson sings "I'm Jealous"

References

^ AllMovie entry

External links

The Feminine Touch at IMDb
The Feminine Touch at Kay Francis Films

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[1] AllMovie entry

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 ==Plot==
-College professor John Hathaway is writing a book about jealousy and how he doesn't believe in it. He isn't the least bit perturbed, for example, when his lovely wife Julie is the object of desire in the eyes of the school's football star, Rubber Legs Ryan.
+College professor John Hathaway (Don Ameche) is writing a book about jealousy and how he doesn't believe in it. He isn't the least bit perturbed, for example, when his lovely wife Julie (Rosiland Russell) is the object of desire in the eyes of the school's football star, Rubber Legs Ryan (Gordon Jones).
-John goes to New York to meet with publisher Elliott Morgan and meets associate Nellie Woods, who loves Elliott but can't get him to commit. Elliott is infatuated with John's wife Julie, but after a while he realizes that she is faithful to her husband. Julie, though, continues to be irked at John's complete lack of jealousy.
+John goes to New York to meet with publisher Elliott Morgan (Van Heflin) and meets associate Nellie Woods (Kay Francis), who loves Elliott but can't get him to commit. Elliott is infatuated with John's wife Julie, but after a while he realizes that she is faithful to her husband. Julie, though, continues to be irked at John's complete lack of jealousy.
 A misunderstanding leads to John being placed under arrest. Elliott's failure to help him or to contact lawyer Freddie Bond as promised is maddening to Julie, who wants John to knock his block off. She also catches John and Nellie in an embrace and turns red with jealous rage, which puzzles John because they were merely celebrating his book sale.