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United Artists. Director Andrew L. Stone; Producer Andrew L. Stone; Screenplay Frederick Jackson, Malcolm Stuart Boylan; Camera James Van Trees, John Mescall; Editor James Smith; Music Emil Newman (dir); Art Director Rudi Feld

John Carroll
Ruth Hussey
Charles Ruggles
Ann Rutherford
Claudia Drake

Bed side Manner is a well-contrived, streamlined comedy of the overworked medico profession in wartimes. At least that is the clothesrack on which is strung a ludicrous romance between a femme doctor and a war worker.

Plot [from a SatEvePost story by Robert Carson] pits Charles Ruggles against his niece (Ruth Hussey), another medico, in the former's frantic effort to have her stay in a war-boom town and assist him with his overworked practice (she's en route to Chicago to do research work). This central motive is speeded along by the romance between Hussey and John Carroll, the airplane test pilot, to an almost wacky degree.

Carroll is effective but Hussey steals the picture as the woman medico, proving a neat combo of femme charm and professional crispness. Anne Rutherford chips in with one of her better screen roles as the haughty sweetheart who finds one of the Marines more intriguing. Ruggles, as usual, lends infectious humor to the role of overworked physician.

(B&W) Available on VHS. Extract of a review from 1945. Running time: 79 MIN.

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