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Release Date: 1957

Cast: Nicholas Joy, Dina Merrill, Sue Randall, Ida Moore, Merry Anders, Harry Ellerbe, Spencer Tracy, Rachel Stephens, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Diane Jergens, Neva Patterson ...MORE

Cast: Nicholas Joy, Dina Merrill, Sue Randall, Ida Moore, Merry Anders, Harry Ellerbe, Spencer Tracy, Rachel Stephens, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Diane Jergens, Neva Patterson, Katharine Hepburn ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romantic comedy, Comedy, Romance Film, Libraries and librarians, Workplace Comedy

Desk Set (His Other Woman in the UK) is a 1957 American romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron from the play by William Marchant. Desk Set takes place at the "Federal Broadcasting Network" (exterior shots are of Rockefeller Center, headquarters of NBC). Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) is in charge of its reference library, which is responsible for researching and answering questions on all manner of topics, such as the names of Santa's reindeer. She has been involved for... MORE

Desk Set (His Other Woman in the UK) is a 1957 American romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron from the play by William Marchant. Desk Set takes place at the "Federal Broadcasting Network" (exterior shots are of Rockefeller Center, headquarters of NBC). Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) is in charge of its reference library, which is responsible for researching and answering questions on all manner of topics, such as the names of Santa's reindeer. She has been involved for seven years with rising network executive Mike Cutler (Gig Young), with no marriage in sight. The network is negotiating a merger with another company, but is keeping it secret. To help the employees cope with the extra work that will result, the network head has ordered two computers (called "electronic brains" in the film). Richard Sumner (Spencer Tracy), the inventor of EMERAC (an allusion to the early computers UNIVAC and ENIAC) and an efficiency expert, is brought in to see how the library functions, to figure out how to ease the transition. Though extremely bright, as he gets to know Bunny, he LESS