| The Lady is Willing | |
| Director: | Mitchell Leisen |
| Producer: | Mitchell Leisen |
| Screenplay: | James Edward Grant Albert McCleery |
| Story: | James Edward Grant |
| Starring: | Marlene Dietrich Fred MacMurray Aline MacMahon Stanley Ridges Arline Judge Roger Clark |
| Music: | W. Franke Harling "I Find You" (song) by Jack King (music) and Gordon Clifford (lyrics) |
| Cinematography: | Ted Tetzlaff, A.S.C. |
| Editing: | Eda Warren |
| Distributor: | Columbia Pictures |
| Runtime: | 92 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
The Lady is Willing is a 1942 American screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen, produced by Columbia Pictures and starring Marlene Dietrich and Fred MacMurray.[1]
Elizabeth Madden longs for motherhood but has no husband. Her desire appears to be fulfilled when she finds an abandoned baby, but she does not know how to raise it. She finds divorced pediatrician Dr. Corey McBain to help her with the child.[2]
In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther called The Lady Is Willing "a very stagy exhibition in rather revolting taste" and wrote: "Where it should be tender and simple it is maudlin and over-dressed. And where the romantic business should be delicate it is coarse and lickerish. ... The lady is too willing and not sufficiently sincere."[3]