The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim is a 1947 American musical comedy film in Technicolor written and directed by George Seaton, starring Betty Grable and Dick Haymes.
Cynthia Pilgrim Betty Grable is the top typewriting Typewriter student of the first graduating class of the Packard Business College in New York City, and as such she is offered a position with the Pritchard Shipping Company in Boston. There, she finds an office of men overseen by office manager Mr. Saxon Gene Lockhart. When Cynthia introduces herself to company coowner John Pritchard Dick Haymes, he tells her he thought all expert typists were male and his policy is to hire only men. Cynthia asks for an opportunity to prove shes as efficient as her male counterparts, but John refuses and offers her train fare back to New York.Johns Aunt Alice Anne Revere, an avowed suffragette, has the controlling interest in the company and insists that Cynthia be given a chance. Cynthia finds lodgings at Catherine Dennisons Elizabeth Patterson boarding house, where she meets an eclectic group of tenants, including poet Leander Woolsey Allyn Joslyn, artist Michael Michael Arthur Shields, and musician Herbert Jothan Charles Kemper. ........
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