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Slightly Dangerous is a 1943 American romantic comedy film starring Lana Turner and Robert Young. A bored young woman in a dead-end job runs away to New York City and ends up impersonating the long-lost daughter of a millionaire. The film was directed by Wesley Ruggles and written by Charles Lederer and George Oppenheimer from a story by Aileen Hamilton. According to Turner Classic Movies film historian Robert Osborne, one sequence early in the film – in which Lana Turner's character does her job at the soda fountain while blindfolded – was actually directed by an uncredited Buster Keaton.
Original Release
04/01/1943
US Release
04/01/1943
Cast
Name | Character |
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Lana Turner | Peggy Evans aka Carol Burden |
Robert Young | Bob Stuart |
Walter Brennan | Cornelius Burden |
Eugene Pallette | Durstin |
Alan Mowbray | English Gentleman |
Florence Bates | Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke |
Howard Freeman | Mr. Quill |
Millard Mitchell | Baldwin |
Ward Bond | Jimmy |
Pamela Blake | Mitzi |
Directors
Writers
Charles Lederer, Ian McLellan Hunter, Aileen Hamilton, George Oppenheimer
Cast
Name | Character |
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Lana Turner | Peggy Evans aka Carol Burden |
Robert Young | Bob Stuart |
Walter Brennan | Cornelius Burden |
Eugene Pallette | Durstin |
Alan Mowbray | English Gentleman |
Florence Bates | Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke |
Howard Freeman | Mr. Quill |
Millard Mitchell | Baldwin |
Ward Bond | Jimmy |
Pamela Blake | Mitzi |
Ray Collins | Snodgrass |
May Whitty | Baba |
Ann Doran | Salesgirl |
E. Mason Hopper | Man in Newspaper Office |
Charles Ray | Opera Patron |
Dell Henderson | Doorman |
Walter Sande | Reporter |
Paul Stanton | Stanhope |
O.K. Ford | Music Lover |
Eddie Acuff | Soda Jerk |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Pandro S. Berman | Producer |