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In this screwball spin on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Barbara Stanwyck triumphs as burlesque singer Sugarpuss O’Shea who goes into hiding at the residence of a linguistics professor, Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper), and his seven scholarly colleagues. Potts is seduced by O’Shea’s “brilliant mind” through her witty vernacular of New York street slang. Their budding romance is thwarted when her gangster boyfriend demands marriage to prevent her from testifying against him. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn and written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, the film typifies a prestige “A” class production that appealed to freelance talent like Stanwyck, who used her contractual muscle to negotiate for Edith Head to design her clothes in the film that redefined her sex-symbol persona.
35mm, b/w, 111 min. Production: The Samuel Goldwyn Company. Distribution: RKO Radio Pictures. Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenwriter: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder. Cinematographer: Gregg Toland. Editor: Daniel Mandell. Composer: Alfred Newman. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall.
