That Wonderful Urge

That Wonderful Urge
Directed by Robert B. Sinclair
Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Fred Kohmar
Written by Jay Dratler
Starring Gene Tierney
Tyrone Power
Music by Cyril J. Mockridge
Cinematography Charles G. Clarke
Edited by Louis Loeffler
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • December 21, 1948 (1948-12-21)
Running time
 82 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $1,650,000[1][2]

That Wonderful Urge is a 1948 20th Century Fox screwball comedy film directed by Robert B. Sinclair and starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney.[3][4] It is a remake of Love Is News (1937), which stars Power and Loretta Young.

Plot

Newspaper reporter Thomas Jefferson Tyler writes a series of unflattering articles under the title "The Life and Loves of Sara Farley", infuriating the wealthy grocery-store heiress target of his stories. He impersonates a small-town newspaper manager named "Tom Thomas" sympathetic to her plight and maneuvers to get her to talk about herself. He finds her down to earth and writes a much different article about her. However, Sara finds out about the deception and tells the press that the two of them got married and that she gave him a million dollars. When Duffy, Tom's editor, reads the story, he promptly fires Tom. Hijinks ensue as Tom tries to clear himself. Eventually, he sues Sara for libel.

Cast

Notes

  1. ↑ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 223
  2. ↑ "Top Grossers of 1949". Variety. 4 January 1950. p. 59.
  3. ↑ Variety film review; November 24, 1948, page 6.
  4. ↑ Harrison's Reports film review; November 27, 1948, page 190.
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