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Title:

Desk set / Twentieth Century-Fox presents ; screenplay by Phoebe and Henry Ephron ; produced by Henry Ephron ; directed by Walter Lang.

Edition:

Special wide screen edition.

Publisher:

CBS/Fox Video,

Copyright Date:

1991

Description:

1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 12 in.

Subject:

Feature films.
Comedy films.

Other Authors:

Lang, Walter, 1898-1972. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87911812
Ephron, Henry, 1912-1992. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95008433
Ephron, Phoebe, 1914-1971. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95008431
Marchant, William, 1923-. Desk Set.
Tracy, Spencer, 1900-1967. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50014652
Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50038123
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78089065
CBS Fox Video. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84074645

Notes:

Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Dina Merrill. Based on the play by William Marchant.

Summary:

A romantic, screwball comedy about an efficiency expert who's invented the world's most advanced computer and is brought in to help automate a major TV network's research department, but he must keep his mission a secret. The head of the department, posessing a photographic memory, and her very capable staff become nervous over the expert's mysterious prowlings, causing rumors to fly leading to an assortment of interesting complications.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)28531033

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)