Theodora Goes Wild

Theodora Goes Wild is a 1936 American romantic comedy film that tells the story of a small town which is incensed by a risqu novel, little knowing that it was written under a pseudonym by a member of the towns leading family. It stars Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas and was directed by Richard Boleslawski. The film was written by Mary McCarthy and Sidney Buchman. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Irene Dunne and Best Film Editing. Its often mentioned as a screwball comedy, due to a few of the elements in the story.

Theodora Lynn Irene Dunne is a Sunday school teacher and former church organist in Lynnfield, Connecticut, raised by two spinster aunts, Mary Elisabeth Risdon and Elsie Lynn Margaret McWade. She also happens to be, under the pen name Caroline Adams, the secret author of a bestselling book that has the straitlaced Lynnfield Literary Circle in an uproar. The book is serialized in the local newspaper, and the Literary Circle, led by outraged busybody Rebecca Perry Spring Byington, forces the newspapers owner, Jed Waterbury Thomas Mitchell, to stop printing the salacious installments.Theodora travels to New York City on the pretext of visiting her black sheep uncle, John Robert Greig, but actually goes to see her publisher, Arthur Stevenson Thurston Hall. Though Stevenson reassures an anxious Theodora that only he and his secretary know her identity, his wife Ethel Nana Bryant pressures him into an introduction, which the books illustrator, Michael Grant Melvyn Douglas, overhears. Intrigued, Michael invites himself to dinner with the Stevensons and Theodora. Theodora becomes annoyed when Michael smugly assumes that she is a teetotaler, so she orders a whiskey. As the night goes on, she becomes drunk. So does Ethel, forcing Arthur to take his wife home and leaving Theodora alone with Michael. When he makes a pass at her, she panics and flees, much to his amusement. ........

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