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Without Love

MOVIE #61

Without Love (1945)

(featuring Lucille Ball as Kitty Trimble)


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Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn created one of the box-office sensations of 1945, a sparklingly witty wartime comedy about a marriage entered on the theory that love only gums up a relationship.

Invited by a drunken Quintin Ladd (Keenan Wynn), devoted scientist Patrick Jamieson (Tracy) moves into the Washington mansion belonging to Ladd's cousin Mrs. Jamie Rowan (Hepburn), a widow, who, it soon appears, shares Pat's distaste of romantic love.

Highly interested in the scientist's attempt to develop a high-altitude oxygen helmet for the war department, and tired of being hit on by men, an emboldened Jamie proposes marriage to Pat, insisting that theirs should be a union uncomplicated by love. Pat readily agrees and the two settle into a seemingly well-functioning life of shared passion for the oxygen experiments.

But when Pat's former girlfriend turns up, Jamie discovers that she has fallen in love with her husband after all and attempts to win him back. The ploy, however, seems to backfire, or does it?

Special Notes: Director Harold S. Bouquet, died of cancer soon after this film was released. Lucille Ball plays Katherine Hepburn's cynical secretary in this film.

Movie #61
Film Date: 1945

Release Date: May 1, 1945
Film Type: drama
Film Color: black/white
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Film Length: 111 minutes

Director/Producer:
Harold S. Bucquet (Director)
Lawrence Weingarten (Producer)

Character Role:
Lucille Ball (Kitty Trimble)

Supporting Cast:
Spencer Tracy (Pat Jamieson)
Katharine Hepburn (Jamie Rowan)
Keenan Wynn (Quentin Ladd)
Gloria Grahame (Flower Girl)
Carl Esmond (Paul Carrell)
Patricia Morison (Edwina Collins)
Lucille Ball (Kitty Trimble)
Felix Bressart (Prof. Grinza)
Emily Massey (Anna)
George Davis (Caretaker
George Chandler (Elevator Boy)
Clancy Cooper (Sergeant)
Clarence Muse (Porter)
Wallis Clark (Prof. Thompson)
Eddie Acuff (Driver)
William Newell (Soldier)
Gary Owen (Soldier)
Donald Curtis (Prof. Ellis)
Joe Devlin (Soldier)
Ralph Brooks (Pageboy)
Franco Corsaro (Headwaiter)
Charles Arnt (Col. Braden)
Hazel Brooks (Girl on Elevator
James Flavin (Sergeant)
William Forrest (Doctor)