Based on the Broadway play by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr, Desk Set is the sixth screen teaming of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn plays Bunny Watson, the head of a TV network research department; Tracy plays Richard Sumner, an efficiency expert hired to modernize Watson's operation. When Sumner has a huge computer installed, Watson and her co-workers (including Joan Blondell and Sue Randall) fear that they're going to lose their jobs.
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Based on the Broadway play by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr, Desk Set is the sixth screen teaming of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn plays Bunny Watson, the head of a TV network research department; Tracy plays Richard Sumner, an efficiency expert hired to modernize Watson's operation. When Sumner has a huge computer installed, Watson and her co-workers (including Joan Blondell and Sue Randall) fear that they're going to lose their jobs. Their suspicions are confirmed when the computer merrily begins issuing pink termination slips. Something is obviously amiss: the computer not only fires the ladies, but also the head of the network, and Sumner, who isn't even on the company payroll! Sumner explains that the computer was designed to help Watson and her staff and not replace them; he also confesses that, given the pink-slip incident, this might not have been such a hot idea. Watson, who has fallen in love with Sumner, is in just the right mood to forgive him. This would be the next-to-last Hepburn/Tracy pairing; they would reunite one last time onscreen in 1967’s Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner.
Cast and crew
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Walter Lang
Director -
Spencer Tracy
Richard Sumner -
Katharine Hepburn
Bunny Watson -
Gig Young
Mike Cutler -
Joan Blondell
Peg Costello -
Dina Merrill
Sylvia Blair -
Sue Randall
Ruthie Saylor -
Neva Patterson
Miss Warriner -
Harry Ellerbe
Smithers -
Nicholas Joy
Mr. Azae -
Diane Jergens
Alice -
Merry Anders
Cathy -
Ida Moore
Old Lady -
Rachel Stephens
Receptionist -
Phoebe Ephron
Writer -
Henry Ephron
Writer -
William Marchant
Writer
Additional information
Directors
Walter LangDirectors
Studio
20th Century StudiosStudio
Subtitles
English (CC)Subtitles
Released year
1957Released year
Age rating
Duration
1 h 43 minDuration
Genres
ComedyGenres
Writers
Phoebe EphronHenry Ephron
William Marchant
Writers
Henry Ephron
William Marchant
Size
6.03 GB (1080p HD)2.77 GB (720p HD)
2.05 GB (SD)
Size
2.77 GB (720p HD)
2.05 GB (SD)
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