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Release year: 1941

Storyline

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

Top credits

Directors

Clarence Brown

Writers

Cast

James Stewart — Bill Smith
Hedy Lamarr — Johnny Jones
Ian Hunter — Barton Kendrick
Verree Teasdale — Diana Kendrick

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Did you know

• Film debut of Adeline De Walt Reynolds at the age of 78. She would continue her career in film and television for another 20 years until her death at age 98 in 1961.

• When Bill gets a beer to drink, it's in a cone-top can. These cans were invented in 1935 as an answer to flat-top cans that were invented the same year. Cone-tops were sealed with the same bottle cap used on bottled beer, so they were popular with small breweries that could fill them with the bottling equipment they already owned. Metal rationing during World War II put a stop to metal beverage cans until after the war.

• Hedy Lamarr may be the only screen actor to be in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. She was inducted in 2014 along with former Hollywood composer George Antheil. At the start of World War II, the two invented a frequency-hopping technique that could be used by the Allies to prevent jamming of torpedo guidance systems. Apparently, it wasn't used by the U.S. until 1962 but later became an important aspect for wireless communications. The inventors received no compensation for their discovery. The original 1942 patent expired, and the technique became part of the public domain.