Designing Woman (1957)

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Designing Woman

Synopsis: After covering a golf tournament in Los Angeles, sportswriter Mike Hagen returns to his New York home with a tan. And with a fashion-designer wife he scarcely knows.

Romantic pitfalls surface gleefully in this Vincente Minnelli-directed comedy featuring an Oscar®-winning* script and Manhattanites – an ex-flame (Dolores Gray), low-life hustlers(Chuck Connors, Jesse White) and an addled palooka (Mickey Shaughnessy) among them – who rub elbows and funny bones. Lauren Bacall plays the stylish title character. As Hagen, Gregory Peck gamely displays his comedic flair, pratfalling into a chair, slyly mimicking Bacall and coping with indignity as ravioli is served…in his lap.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
Behind the Scenes Mini-Documentary Featuring Costume Designer Helen Rose
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature

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Woohoo, I'm looking forward to this. Though I have little interest in the Peck/Bacall relationship (I find both of their characters, and their love story, to be a bit irritating), I'm a big fan of Dolores Gray, who appears in a supporting role in this film.

Ah, Dolores... She's a lot of fun to watch, whatever she does, and it's a shame that she really didn't get started in films until musicals were on their way out, because she was fantastic. She only appeared in four films in the 1950s; what a waste. With this release, three of those four films will now be on blu-ray: Kismet, It's Always Fair Weather, and Designing Woman. So, only one more to go---I hope we'll see a blu of The Opposite Sex sometime soon.