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A 1941 screwball comedy about eight professors who are trying to compile the world's largest encyclopedia. Realizing his books on slang are out of date, English Professor Bertram Potts ([[Gary Cooper]]) leaves the communal library/house where they work to find research material. There he meets burlesque dancer Sugarpuss O'Shea ([[Barbara Stanwyck]]), who needs a place to hide from the cops so she can't testify against her boyfriend: mobster Joe Lilac ([[Dana Andrews]]). She stays with Potts and uses his affection of her to her advantage. Naturally, she [[In Love With the Mark|falls in love with the mark]] and [[Hilarity Ensues]].

 

[[Category:Films of the 1940s]]

[[Category:The Forties]]