Take a Letter, Darling

May 6, 1942

1h 32m

★ 6.5

She Had Him Put in a Full Day's Work ... At Night!

Overview

A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

A.M. MacGregor

Rosalind Russell

Tom Verney

Fred MacMurray

Jonathan Caldwell

Macdonald Carey

Ethel Caldwell

Constance Moore

G.B. Atwater

Robert Benchley

Fud Newton

Charles Arnt

Uncle George

Cecil Kellaway

Aunt Minnie

Kathleen Howard

Aunt Judy

Margaret Seddon

Moses

Dooley Wilson

Sam French

George H. Reed

Sally French

Margaret Hayes

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