People Will Talk

People Will Talk 1951 is a romantic comedydrama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck from a screenplay by Mankiewicz, based on the German play by Curt Goetz, which had been made into a movie in Germany Frauenarzt Dr. Prtorius, 1950. Released by Twentieth Century Fox, the film stars Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain, with supporting performances by Hume Cronyn, Finlay Currie, Walter Slezak, and Sidney Blackmer.

People Will Talk describes an episode in the life of Dr. Noah Praetorius Cary Grant, a physician who teaches in a medical school and founded a clinic dedicated to treating patients humanely and holistically. The plot contains two parallel story lines a professionalmisconduct challenge brought against Praetorius by his more conventional colleague Dr. Rodney Elwell Hume Cronyn, who dislikes Praetoriuss unorthodox but effective methods and the struggle of a distressed young woman named Deborah Higgins Jeanne Crain, who falls in love with Praetorius while dealing with an outofwedlock pregnancy. The film also highlights Praetoriuss close friend and confidant, physics professor Lyonel Barker Walter Slezak, who plays bass viol in the studentfaculty orchestra conducted by Praetorius.At the start of the film, Elwell has hired a detective to investigate Praetorius. A housemaid Margaret Hamilton who once worked for Praetorius reacts visibly when Elwell asks her about Praetoriuss mysterious friend Mr. Shunderson, who rarely leaves Praetoriuss side and has a deep, intuitive understanding of human and animal nature. ........

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