A beautiful, intellectually unremarkable young woman befriends and comes to rely on a group of brilliant-but-awkward geniuses who work at a university, one of which develops a crush on her. The Big Bang Theory, right? Wrong — it's a movie called Ball of Fire, released in 1941 and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.
I'm not sure, but this feels like it should be under Surprisingly-Similar Stories.
Edited by DaibhidC