We did a first version, but had problems with the sound, so had to re-shoot a week later. Hard to keep up the enthusiasm, but in the end I probably kept things tighter in the review.
Anyway, this is a fantastic film: one of my all time favourites, and I hope you're going to love it too. Desk Set: 1957, 20th Century Fox. Directed by Walter Lang, starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Joan Blondell, Gig Young, Dina Merrill, Sue Randall, and Neva Patterson.
A glorious romantic comedy about The Future of the Modern Working World and Computers Therein - filled with beautiful intelligent people.
A couple of things that I ran out of time to mention: Neva Patterson, who plays Miss Warriner (Spencer Tracy's assistant) in the film, might look familiar to you. To avoid the 'Where Do I Know Her' blues - she plays Cary Grant's fiance in 'An Affair to Remember'. I don't think she ever really won out in films, to be honest. She might have been a fiance often enough, but I don't know how often she got to be the bride.
And Dina Merrill, who plays Sylvia Blair, was herself a socialite and an heiress. Still alive today, she apparently worth around $5 BILLION. Beautiful and wealthy. Sheesh.
Anyway - they are the little extra fun facts I have up my sleeve.
