The Lady is Willing is a 1942 American screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen, produced by Columbia Pictures and starring Marlene Dietrich and Fred MacMurray.[1]

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The Lady is Willing
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Directed byMitchell Leisen
Screenplay byJames Edward Grant
Albert McCleery
Story byJames Edward Grant
Produced byMitchell Leisen
StarringMarlene Dietrich
Fred MacMurray
Aline MacMahon
Stanley Ridges
Arline Judge
Roger Clark
CinematographyTed Tetzlaff, A.S.C.
Edited byEda Warren
Music byW. Franke Harling
"I Find You" (song) by Jack King (music) and Gordon Clifford (lyrics)
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • February 12, 1942 (1942-02-12)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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Plot

Elizabeth Madden longs for motherhood but has no husband. Her desire appears to be fulfilled when she finds an abandoned baby, but she does not know how to raise it. She finds divorced pediatrician Dr. Corey McBain to help her with the child.[2]

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Reception

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther called The Lady Is Willing "a very stagy exhibition in rather revolting taste" and wrote: "Where it should be tender and simple it is maudlin and over-dressed. And where the romantic business should be delicate it is coarse and lickerish. ... The lady is too willing and not sufficiently sincere."[3]

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