The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim is a 1947 American musical comedy film in Technicolor written and directed by George Seaton and starring Betty Grable and Dick Haymes.
Plot
Cynthia Pilgrim is the top typewriting (i.e. typing) student of the first graduating class of the Packard Business College in New York City, and as such she is offered a position as a typewriter (i.e. typist) with the Pritchard Shipping Company in Boston. There, she finds an office of men overseen by office manager Mr. Saxon. When Cynthia introduces herself to company co-owner John Pritchard, 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 she is as efficient as her male counterparts, but John refuses and offers her train fare back to New York.
More details
| author | Frederica Sagor Maas |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Boston |
| director | George Seaton |
| editor | Robert Simpson |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | boarding house engage even how to new york city packard business college rooming house shipping company suffragist think type |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman |
| producer | William Perlberg |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| theme | feminist musical comedy romantic comedy romantic musical |