Hard to Get (1938 film)

Hard to Get is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring Dick Powell and Olivia de Havilland. Written by Jerry Wald, Maurice Leo, and Richard Macaulay, the film is about a spoiled young heiress who tries to charge some gasoline at an auto court and is forced by the attendant to work out her bill by making beds and cleaning rooms. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and then sends him to her father to get financing for his plan to develop a string of auto courts across the country, knowing he will only be wasting his time. Hard to Get was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on November 5, 1938.

Margaret returns home vowing revenge on Bill for his treatment of her. At first she asks her fatherwho is on the board of the oil company that owns the stationto have Bill fired. After listening to her story, however, her father agrees with the way Bill handled the issue and tells her shell have to find her own way of getting her revenge. The next day, Margaret returns to the auto court gas station and apologizes to Bill, pretending to have forgiven him. Attracted to the beautiful heiress, who now pretends to be her familys maid Maggie, Bill asks her on a date and she accepts.That night, Bill sneaks them into a banquet for a free dinner, then takes her up to the Empire State Building, where he tells her about his dream of building a string of auto courts across the country. Margaret tells him she thinks its a great idea and sends him to her father to get financing for his planeven providing him her fathers old nickname Spouter so the secretaries will think he is one of Bens old friends. Margaret knows that when her father sees that Bill used the nickname to pretend he was an old friend, he will make his life miserable. ........

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