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Miss Grain de sel

Original title: Miss Grant Takes Richmond
  • 1949
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
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William Holden and Lucille Ball in Miss Grain de sel (1949)
ComedyRomance

A newly hired dumb secretary working for a bookie masquerading as a Realtor causes unintended hilarious troubles for her employer.A newly hired dumb secretary working for a bookie masquerading as a Realtor causes unintended hilarious troubles for her employer.A newly hired dumb secretary working for a bookie masquerading as a Realtor causes unintended hilarious troubles for her employer.

  • Director
    • Lloyd Bacon
  • Writers
    • Nat Perrin
    • Devery Freeman
    • Frank Tashlin
  • Stars
    • Lucille Ball
    • William Holden
    • Janis Carter
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
    1.1K
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    • Director
      • Lloyd Bacon
    • Writers
      • Nat Perrin
      • Devery Freeman
      • Frank Tashlin
    • Stars
      • Lucille Ball
      • William Holden
      • Janis Carter
    • 22User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Lucille Ball
    Lucille Ball
    • Ellen Grant
    William Holden
    William Holden
    • Dick Richmond
    Janis Carter
    Janis Carter
    • Peggy Donato
    James Gleason
    James Gleason
    • Timothy P. Gleason
    Gloria Henry
    Gloria Henry
    • Helen White
    Frank McHugh
    Frank McHugh
    • Mr. Kilcoyne
    George Cleveland
    George Cleveland
    • Judge Ben Grant
    Stephen Dunne
    Stephen Dunne
    • Ralph Winton
    Eddie Acuff
    Eddie Acuff
    • Bus Driver
    • (uncredited)
    George Boyce
    • Prospective Home Buyer
    • (uncredited)
    Peter Brocco
    Peter Brocco
    • Father of Triplets
    • (uncredited)
    Wanda Cantlon
    • Peggy's Maid
    • (uncredited)
    Harry Cheshire
    Harry Cheshire
    • Leo Hopkins
    • (uncredited)
    Michael Cisney
    • Lawyer
    • (uncredited)
    Cliff Clark
    • Construction Materials Contractor
    • (uncredited)
    Sayre Dearing
    Sayre Dearing
    • Man in Courtroom
    • (uncredited)
    Anthony Dexter
    Anthony Dexter
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    Kay Garrett
    • Nightclub Patron
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Lloyd Bacon
    • Writers
      • Nat Perrin
      • Devery Freeman
      • Frank Tashlin
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    8bkoganbing

    Who's Taking Who?

    When Lucille Ball did I Love Lucy few at the time suspected she had the comic talents she possessed. Her history up to then in films was usually as a wisecracking second banana in major films and some leading roles in B films.

    And Miss Grant Takes Richmond is definitely a B film. Next year William Holden with Sunset Boulevard would step into the A list of players, but it wasn't his time yet. Holden proved to be a worthy foil for Lucy's comic antics.

    The film is definitely Lucy's however. CBS executives must have seen Miss Grant Takes Richmond and seen what Lucy could do before passing on I Love Lucy as a television series.

    There were some incidents that definitely could have come out of I Love Lucy. Her struggles with mastering the typewriter in secretarial school with Holden deftly catching a flying typewriter carriage, her dodging a steam shovel at a construction sight, her trying to use a jackhammer and the aftermath of that, all these could easily have been in any of her television series. Harbinger of things to come. Remember also that Bill Holden made a memorable appearance on I Love Lucy and got a pie in his face at the Brown Derby.

    Lucy is a klutzy scatterbrained student at a secretarial school run by Charles Lane and Holden comes in looking to hire. To everyone's amazement he hires Lucy. He runs a scam real estate operation that is a front for a bookie joint. Her job is to basically babysit and commiserate with those who actually come in and are looking to buy property and shine them on. She doesn't know she's working for bookies, Bill Holden, Frank McHugh, and James Gleason.

    Through her own wide-eyed Marie Wilson type view of the world before long she's got this trio actually building homes and trying to be bookies at the same time.

    To see the Lucy Ricardo of the future by all means catch Miss Grant Takes Richmond.

    If you don't, you'll have a lot of 'splaining to do.
    7SnoopyStyle

    TV Lucy

    Ellen Grant (Lucille Ball) is the worst typist in class. Everyone is surprised when Dick Richmond (William Holden) hires her for his new secretary. He's actually a bookie running a horse race gambling operation out back and a fake property rental business front. He needs a dumb blonde as the face of his fake business but she starts making the fake operation real.

    Lucy is showing off some of her physical humor which would come in handy later on her TV show. She does need to be much dumber. The comedy would work better if she's a complete moron. Ellen should be absolutely a young innocent. One can absolutely see the TV Lucy especially when she turns fake thug. The plot is a bit convoluted but a screwball comedy can do that. This is a great progression into one of the great TV shows of all times.
    6ArtVandelayImporterExporter

    Saturday filler

    I watched because I am a William Holden fan. Others will watch b/c they are Lucille Ball fans.

    They work well together in this harmless comedy. The concept was probably scratched on a diner napkin. Bookie with a fake real estate company hires dimwit secretary. Wacky hijinks ensue.

    Throw in veteran support. Include a couple of double entendres along the way. Let Lucy do some physical comedy. And let Bill Holden be his super cool self. And away you go.
    5robertcicco3035

    For Lucy fans only

    Miss Grant Takes Richmond is an OK comedy starring Lucille Ball as a somewhat dizzy secretary who is hired by Mr. Richmond, a bookie using a phony real estate business as a front. Lucy, of course, doesn't know this, and she believes that he will build low-cost homes for her friends. This film is, unfortunately, not very funny. There are a couple of humorous sequences, but overall it should have been funnier. There's also very little slapstick, which is strange considering that Lucy was so adept at it. She and Holden do have some chemistry, though, and the supporting cast is good. A 5 out of 10.
    6wglenn

    Lucy and Bill

    I've always thought William Holden was an underrated comic actor and at his most charming in some of his comedies (Sabrina, Born Yesterday, Moon is Blue). Since he didn't make a lot of comedies, I was looking forward to this one with Lucille Ball. But it's not Holden's film. It's Lucy's film, with Holden playing the straight man. I'm not a big Lucy fan, but she's quite funny in this. Holden, on the other hand, seems a little stiff or disinterested. To be honest, there's not much to work with. Lucy probably succeeds because she's very good at physical comedy and can make us laugh without saying anything, which helps when the script is so weak. Holden's humor tends to come from his intelligence and his timing, which is harder to make work when the screenplay is mediocre or you don't want to be in the film to begin with. Miss Grant Takes Richmond came out the year before Sunset Blvd., so I imagine that Holden's frustration with his roles during much of the 1940s was reaching its peak around this time. But James Gleason and Frank McHugh, two wonderful actors, also seem to struggle a bit in this film, so I pin much of the blame on the writing. There are some funny bits here and there, but it's all a little sugary for me. Lucy fans will probably enjoy it, though - she does the best.

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    • Trivia
      Rita Hayworth was going to star in this movie, but Hayworth requested script revisions, and went on suspension to avoid making it.
    • Goofs
      Mr. Woodruff tells the students that they have 45 seconds to transcribe their shorthand notes. He sets the timer. This scene, which is shown in real time, takes 71 seconds from the time he says "go" to the time the timer goes off.
    • Quotes

      Hood: [answering the phone] It's Dick. Are you in?

      Peggy Donato: I'm always in for Dick.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Lady with the Torch (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Bridal Chorus
      from Lohengrin (Uncredited)

      Composed by Richard Wagner

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    • Release date
      • May 5, 1950 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Streaming on "Sony Pictures Entertainment India" YouTube Channel
      • Streaming on "Sony Pictures India - English" YouTube Channel
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Miss Grant Takes Richmond
    • Filming locations
      • Hollywood, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Columbia Pictures
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 27m(87 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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