The Cowboy and the Lady (1938 film)

The Cowboy and the Lady is a 1938 American western romantic comedy film directed by H.C. Potter, and starring Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon. Written by S.N. Behrman and Sonya Levien, based on a story by Frank R. Adams and veteran film director Leo McCarey, the film is about a beautiful socialite masquerading as a maid who becomes involved with an unpretentious, plainspoken cowboy who is unaware of her true identity. The Cowboy and the Lady won an Academy Award for Sound Recording Thomas Moulton, and was nominated for Original Score Alfred Newman and Original Song The Cowboy and the Lady by Lionel Newman and Arthur Quenzer.

For Mary, Palm Beach during the off season is a place of loneliness and boredom. She asks her two housemaids Patsy Kelly and Mabel Todd if she can go along with them on a blind date with some cowboys from a visiting rodeo. The two maids reluctantly agree. Feeling sorry for the inexperienced Mary, they coach her on their threestep system for getting a man interested flatter him, get him talking about himself, and play on his sympathy with a hardluck story.After the rodeo, the three women meet up with their dates at the Rodeo Cafeteria and pair off. Mary is immediately attracted to the tall, lanky, and unpretentious cowboy Stretch Willoughby Gary Cooper and arranges to be with him. After dinner, they continue their evening back at Marys beachfront estate. Aware that the plainspoken Stretch is suspicious of high society rich folk, Mary pretends to be a ladys maid whose boss is out of town. Mary attempts to get the shy cowboy interested by following the first two steps of the system but fails to attract his interest. Determined, she proceeds to the third step, inventing a hardluck story about her drunken father and four younger sisters whom she alone must support. When she adds a tear or two to embellish her story, Stretch is won over, and the evening ends with the two kissing in the moonlight. ........

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