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Release Date: 1957

Cast: Kirk Douglas, Susan Hayward

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Romance Film, Black-and-white

Top Secret Affair is a 1957 romantic comedy film made by Carrollton Inc. and distributed by Warner Bros. that starred Susan Hayward and Kirk Douglas. It was directed by H.C. Potter and produced by Martin Rackin and Milton Sperling from a screenplay by Roland Kibbee and Allan Scott. The plot is very loosely adapted from the 1951 novel Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. by John P. Marquand, which had previously been adapted in 1952 for television's "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse." The film's credits state that it is "based on characters" in the book, rather than on the book itself. Like the novel, the... MORE

Top Secret Affair is a 1957 romantic comedy film made by Carrollton Inc. and distributed by Warner Bros. that starred Susan Hayward and Kirk Douglas. It was directed by H.C. Potter and produced by Martin Rackin and Milton Sperling from a screenplay by Roland Kibbee and Allan Scott. The plot is very loosely adapted from the 1951 novel Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. by John P. Marquand, which had previously been adapted in 1952 for television's "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse." The film's credits state that it is "based on characters" in the book, rather than on the book itself. Like the novel, the movie features a romance between a general named Melville Goodwin and a wealthy journalist named Dorothy "Dottie" Peale. But the storylines are drastically different in the details of the characters' romance and personalities. (In the novel, the affair is adulterous, but in the movie both parties are single.) Some minor characters' names from the book are also used in the movie, but with no particular fidelity to the originals. The music score was by Roy Webb, the cinematography by Stanley Cortez and costume design by Charles LeMaire. The film co-stars Paul Stewart and Jim Backus. The original leads LESS