History Film / DesigningWoman

* FashionDesigner: Mirella’s job, and she is quite TheFashionista.

Trouble arises when Mirella finds a ripped picture of Mike’s ex-girlfriend, Lori Shannon (Dolores Gray), in his apartment. Mirella doesn’t think much of it until she starts designing costumes for a Lori Shannon show, and she realizes that [[ShesGotLegs Lori's legs]] match the photo in Mike’s apartment.

* ClosetShuffle: Mike, and a shoe eating poodle.

UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winner for George Wells’ original screenplay. Not to be confused with the 1990s sitcom ''Series/DesigningWomen''.

* OppositesAttract: Rough and tough, working-class, Mike Hagen, and high-society, prim, Mirella Brown.

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Mike doesn’t remember his wild night when he won $1200: he met Mirella, they wrote his sports article together, and he paid her $700 for it.

UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winner for George Wells' original screenplay. Not to be confused with the 1990s sitcom ''Series/DesigningWomen''.

When he writes one article too far, Mike has to hide out from the mob and pretend he’s following baseball games around the country. This, however, doesn’t help the piles upon piles of misunderstandings with Mirella as her suspicions of his former relationship with Lori grows.

When he writes one article too far, he has to hide out from the mob and pretend he’s following baseball games around the country. This, however, doesn’t help the piles upon piles of misunderstandings with Mirella as her suspicions of his former relationship with Lori grows.

UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winner for George Wells' original screenplay. Not to be confused with the 1990s TV series, ''Series/DesigningWomen''.

Not to be confused with the 1990s TV series, ''Series/DesigningWomen''.

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A Creator/VincenteMinnelli-directed RomanticComedy, ''Designing Woman'' (1957) stars Creator/GregoryPeck as sportswriter Mike Hagen and Creator/LaurenBacall as fashion designer Mirella Brown. They fall in love after a whirlwind romance in California and [[FourthDateMarriage get married]]. But even with all that chemistry, they find out that their lives are very different. Even so, they try to work things out.

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Mike doesn’t remember his wild night when he won $1200: he met Mirella, they wrote his sports article together, and he paid her $700 for it.
* YourCheatingHeart: Averted. Mirella thinks this, because Mike is too dumb to tell her the truth about him and Lori Shannon.

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A Creator/VincenteMinnelli directed RomanticComedy, ''Designing Woman'' (1957) stars Creator/GregoryPeck as sportswriter, Mike Hagen, and Creator/LaurenBacall, as fashion designer, Mirella Brown. They fall in love after a whirlwind romance in California and [[FourthDateMarriage get married]]. But even with all that chemistry, they find out that their lives are very different. Even so, they try to work things out.

Trouble arises when Mirella finds a ripped picture of Mike’s ex-girlfriend, Lori Shannon (Dolores Grey), in his apartment. Mirella doesn’t think much of it until she starts designing costumes for a Lori Shannon show, and she realizes that [[ShesGotLegs Lori's legs]] match the photo in Mike’s apartment.

A Creator/VincenteMinnelli directed RomanticComedy, ''Designing Woman'' (1957) stars Creator/GregoryPeck as sportswriter, Mike Hagen, and Creator/LaurenBacall, as fashion designer, Mirella Brown. They fall in love after a whirlwind romance in California, and [[FourthDateMarriage get married]]. But even with all that chemistry, they find out that their lives are very different. Even so, they try to work things out.

* DanceBattler: How Randy Owens (played by legendary Jazz choreographer Jack Cole), beats the hell out of Daylor’s {{Mooks}}, and proves that Mike’s archaic view of masculinity is narrow-minded.

A Creator/VincenteMinnelli RomanticComedy, ''Designing Woman'' (1957) stars Creator/GregoryPeck as sportswriter, Mike Hagen, and Creator/LaurenBacall, as fashion designer, Mirella Brown. They fall in love after a whirlwind romance in California, and [[FourthDateMarriage get married]]. But even with all that chemistry, they find out that their lives are very different. Even so, they try to work things out.

A Creator/VincenteMinnelli film, ''Designing Woman'' (1957) stars Creator/GregoryPeck as sportswriter, Mike Hagen, and Creator/LaurenBacall, as fashion designer, Mirella Brown. They fall in love after a whirlwind romance in California, and [[FourthDateMarriage get married]]. But even with all that chemistry, they find out that their lives are very different. Even so, they try to work things out.

* AfraidOfBlood: Mirella at the boxing match. She immediately has to leave when Mike tells her why people are holding up newspapers to their faces (to avoid the blood spatter).

* BreakingTheFourthWall: The movie begins with its principal players commenting on they met, and their relationship with each other.

* DanceBattler: How Randy Owens (played by legendary Jazz choreographer Jack Cole), beats the hell out of Daylor’s {{Mooks}}, and proves Mike’s archaic view of masculinity is narrow-minded.
* FashionDesigner: Mirella’s job, and she is quite TheFashonista.
* FourthDateMarriage: Leads to a lot of their problems…but we wouldn’t have a movie without them, would we?

* SecondActBreakUp: Mike has to hide away from the mob that’s set out to kill him, so he needs to stay in a hotel for three weeks, and this start to dissolve with Mirella because of this.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Mike doesn’t remember his wild night when he won $1200, but he met Mirella, they wrote his sports article, and he paid her $700 for it.

A Creator/VincenteMinnelli film, ''Designing Woman'' (1957) stars Creator/GregoryPeck as a sportswriter, Mike Hagen, and Creator/LaurenBacall, as a fashion designer, Mirella Brown. They fall in love after a whirlwind romance in California, and [[FourthDateMarriage get married]], but even with all that chemistry, they find out that their lives are very different. But, even so, they try to work things out.

Trouble arises when Mirella finds a ripped picture of Mike’s ex-girlfriend, Lori Shannon (Dolores Grey), in his apartment. Mirella doesn’t think much of it, until she starts designing costumes for a Lori Shannon show, and she realizes that her legs match the photo in Mike’s apartment.

When he writes one article too far, he has to hide out from the mob and pretend he’s following the Yankees around the country. This, however, doesn’t help the piles of piles of misunderstandings with Mirella as her suspicions of his former relationship with Lori grows.