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Desk Set Overview:

Desk Set (1957) was a Comedy - Romance Film directed by Walter Lang and produced by Henry Ephron.

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Amor Eletrônico (1957) / Desk Set (1957)

By Lê on Oct 12, 2019 From Critica Retro

Amor Eletrônico (1957) / Desk Set (1957) Muitas profissões desapareceram no último século, em especial por causa de mudanças na tecnologia. Entre essas profissões, temos condutores de coches, telefonistas, ascensoristas, cortadores de gelo e pessoas que empilhavam os pinos de boliche a... Read full article

Desk Set (1957, Walter Lang)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 16, 2017 From The Stop Button

Despite being an adaptation of a stage play and having one main set, Desk Set shouldn’t be stagy. The single main location–and its importance–ought to be able to outweigh the staginess. Desk Set does not, however, succeed in not being stagy. It puts off being stagy for quite a while, but not f... Read full article

Desk Set (1957)

By Beatrice on Jun 13, 2016 From Flickers in Time

Desk Set Directed by Walter Lang Written by Phoebe and Henry Ephron from a play by William Marchant 1957/USA Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Repeat viewing/Netflix rental Bunny Watson: Whether the person is male or female. It is 1957 and Katharine Hepburn once again plays a desperate old m... Read full article

Hepburn and Tracy match wits in... Desk Set (1957)

By Michaela on May 13, 2016 From Love Letters to Old Hollywood

I love everything about this poster... except that man that's supposedly Spencer Tracy. It reminds me of some other actor, but I can't quite put a finger on it. Anyway, despite touting for years that Katharine Hepburn is my everything, including on this blog, I have yet to review one of her films. H... Read full article

Desk Set (1957)

By Cameron on Feb 20, 2015 From The Blonde At The Film

via: http://www.moviepostershop.com/desk-set-movie-poster-1957 Unless otherwise noted, all images are my own. My Great Classic Films for Date Night got me thinking about fantastic screen teams, which naturally led me to Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Their real life love translated brilliant... Read full article

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Desk Set Quotes:

Peg Costello: The traditional Thanksgiving song? One of them is "Over the River and Through the Woods"!
Ruthie Saylor: Are you sure you want this mistletoe right over the door?
Sylvia Blair: Certainly! Then if anything good drifts in we can grab him!
Bunny Watson: [pointing to a large stuffed bunny Mike has] Aren't you going to introduce me to Harvey?
Bunny Watson: [as she is about to go meet Mike] How do I look?
Peg Costello: Too good for him.
Bunny Watson: Have some tequila, Peg.
Peg Costello: I don't think I should. There are 85 calories in a glass of champagne.
Bunny Watson: I have a little place in my neighborhood where I can get it for 65.
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Desk Set Facts
The Company's ENIAC machine that EMARAC was based on had the slogan "Making Machines Do More, So That Man Can Do Less".
Adapted from a Broadway play "The Desk Set" that originally starred Shirley Booth, Byron Sanders and Frank Milan. The stage production opened at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York on Oct. 24, 1955 and ran for 296 performances. "Hollywood Reporter" reported that Booth would repeat her role in the film, which ultimately did not happen (though Harry Ellerbe reprised office gossip Smithers).
The acronym for "electronic brain" EMARAC is the Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator.
This is the first film that Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn did in color and the eighth of the nine films they starred in together. Their next, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, came ten years later.
The sound effects created for EMARAC were re-used in numerous movies and TV series, notably Fantastic Voyage.
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