BBeM: Movies of the '50s Item

Movies of the '50s

with links to the Internet Movie Database

Desk Set (1957)

with Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Gig Young

directed by Walter Lang

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Posted by Alan at 7:31 am (PDT) on Sun May 7, 2017
Duff, you might be right! When I was 22, in 1967, I was involved in community theater and I played the Spencer Tracy part in our production of the original play that the movie was based on. I still remember being called, "the deficiency expert!"
Posted by Duff at 2:11 pm (PDT) on Fri April 28, 2017
I just saw this film for the first time. Katharine Hepburn plays the manager of a broadcast network research department. Her character, BUnny Watson, has an incredible memory and knows everything about everything. I can't help thinking that IBM's Jeopardy-playing supercomputer is named after her, not after Thomas J. Watson, IbM's first president. A bit of Googling tells me I'm not alone.

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