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Awful at being a clerk, he gets help from and befriends Mary Jones (Arthur), who thinks he’s a poor old man down on his luck. Her best friend, Elizabeth (Spring Byington), who also works at the department store, becomes enamoured with Higgins, because she thinks he’s a poor helpless man. John believes them to be fine, upright women… until he finds out that they’re part of the rebelling unionizers. Mary’s boyfriend, Joe O’Brien (Robert Cummings), the leader of the rebelling workers, invites Higgins to their meeting where, to John’s surprise, he’s held as a prime example of the people these workers are trying to help.
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Awful at being a clerk, he gets help from and befriends Mary Jones (Arthur), who thinks he’s a poor old man down on his luck. Her best friend, Elizabeth (Spring Byington), who also works at the department store, becomes enamoured with Higgins, because she thinks he’s a poor helpless man. John believes them to be fine, upright women… until he finds out that they’re part of the rebelling unionizers. Mary’s boyfriend, Joe O’Brien (Robert Cummings), (Creator/RobertCummings), the leader of the rebelling workers, invites Higgins to their meeting where, to John’s surprise, he’s held as a prime example of the people these workers are trying to help.
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: [[spoiler: Averted; whether or not Joe and [[AccidentalPun Mary will get married]] is in question in the middle of the film, but at the end, they too get married on the same day that John and Elizabeth do]].
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: [[spoiler: Averted; whether or not Joe and [[AccidentalPun Mary will get married]] married is in question in the middle of the film, but at the end, they too get married on the same day that John and Elizabeth do]].
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Under absolutely no circumstances should you confuse this film with the 1973 pornographic film ''The Devil '''in''' Miss Jones''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_Miss_Jones Trust us.]]
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Under absolutely no circumstances should you confuse this film with the 1973 pornographic film ''The Devil '''in''' '''[[ParallelPornTitles in]]''' Miss Jones''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_Miss_Jones Trust us.]]
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''The Devil and Miss Jones '' is a 1941 [[RomanticComedy Romantic]] ScrewballComedy from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, directed by Sam Wood.
A multi-millionaire tycoon, John P. Merrick (Creator/CharlesCoburn), owns a bothersome department store where employees are raising hell for unionization. Realizing he’s the only one that can stop them after interviewing a so-so detective, he goes undercover as Thomas Higgins: a lowly store clerk who the store higher-ups know is there to spot the rebellious workers.
Awful at being a clerk, he gets help from and befriends Mary Jones (Creator/JeanArthur) who thinks he’s a poor old man down on his luck. Her best friend, Elizabeth (Spring Byington), who also works at the department store, becomes enamoured with Higgins, because she thinks he’s a poor helpless man. John believes them to be fine, upright women… until he finds out that they’re part of the rebelling unionizers. Mary’s boyfriend, Joe O’Brien (Robert Cummings), the leader of the rebelling workers, invites Higgins to their meeting where, to John’s surprise, he’s held as a prime example of the people these workers are trying to help.
A multi-millionaire tycoon, John P. Merrick (Creator/CharlesCoburn), owns a bothersome department store where employees are raising hell for unionization. Realizing he’s the only one that can stop them after interviewing a so-so detective, he goes undercover as Thomas Higgins: a lowly store clerk who the store higher-ups know is there to spot the rebellious workers.
Awful at being a clerk, he gets help from and befriends Mary Jones (Creator/JeanArthur) who thinks he’s a poor old man down on his luck. Her best friend, Elizabeth (Spring Byington), who also works at the department store, becomes enamoured with Higgins, because she thinks he’s a poor helpless man. John believes them to be fine, upright women… until he finds out that they’re part of the rebelling unionizers. Mary’s boyfriend, Joe O’Brien (Robert Cummings), the leader of the rebelling workers, invites Higgins to their meeting where, to John’s surprise, he’s held as a prime example of the people these workers are trying to help.
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''The Devil and Miss Jones '' is a 1941 [[RomanticComedy Romantic]] ScrewballComedy from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, directed by Sam Wood.
Wood and starring Creator/JeanArthur and Creator/CharlesCoburn.
A multi-millionaire tycoon, John P. Merrick(Creator/CharlesCoburn), (Coburn), owns a bothersome department store where employees are raising hell for unionization. Realizing he’s the only one that can stop them after interviewing a so-so detective, he goes undercover as Thomas Higgins: a lowly store clerk who the store higher-ups know is there to spot the rebellious workers.
Awful at being a clerk, he gets help from and befriends Mary Jones(Creator/JeanArthur) (Arthur), who thinks he’s a poor old man down on his luck. Her best friend, Elizabeth (Spring Byington), who also works at the department store, becomes enamoured with Higgins, because she thinks he’s a poor helpless man. John believes them to be fine, upright women… until he finds out that they’re part of the rebelling unionizers. Mary’s boyfriend, Joe O’Brien (Robert Cummings), the leader of the rebelling workers, invites Higgins to their meeting where, to John’s surprise, he’s held as a prime example of the people these workers are trying to help.
A multi-millionaire tycoon, John P. Merrick
Awful at being a clerk, he gets help from and befriends Mary Jones
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A multi-millionaire tycoon, John P. Merrick, (Charles Coburn) owns a bothersome department store where employees are raising hell for unionization. Realizing he’s the only one that can stop them after interviewing a so-so detective, he goes undercover as Thomas Higgins: a lowly store clerk who the store higher-ups know is there to spot the rebellious workers.
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A multi-millionaire tycoon, John P. Merrick, (Charles Coburn) Merrick (Creator/CharlesCoburn), owns a bothersome department store where employees are raising hell for unionization. Realizing he’s the only one that can stop them after interviewing a so-so detective, he goes undercover as Thomas Higgins: a lowly store clerk who the store higher-ups know is there to spot the rebellious workers.
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* {{Fainting}}: Joe has an Emotional variation of this [[spoiler: when he finds out that Thomas Higgins is actually John P. Merrick]].
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* {{Fainting}}: Joe has an Emotional variation of this [[spoiler: FaintInShock: Joe, when he finds out that Thomas [[spoiler:Thomas Higgins is actually John P. Merrick]].
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: [[spoiler: Averted; whether or not Joe and Mary will get married is in question in the middle of the film, but at the end, they too get married on the same day that John and Elizabeth do]].
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: [[spoiler: Averted; whether or not Joe and [[AccidentalPun Mary will get married married]] is in question in the middle of the film, but at the end, they too get married on the same day that John and Elizabeth do]].
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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Subverted. It seems at first that Joe is just making things worse for John, but eventually he starts to annoy the officers enough with his recital of the constitution that it causes them to suspend, and eventually drop the charges they were going to press against John.
* EatTheEvidence: Mary and John eat the list containing the 400 names of supporting employees [[spoiler: because the store manager was going to use it against those people right after he said he wouldn’t do that]].
* EatTheEvidence: Mary and John eat the list containing the 400 names of supporting employees [[spoiler: because the store manager was going to use it against those people right after he said he wouldn’t do that]].
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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Subverted. It seems at first that Joe is just making things worse for John, but eventually he starts to annoy the officers enough with his recital of the constitution Bill of rights and Declaration of Independence that it causes them to suspend, and eventually drop the charges they were going to press against John.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: John manages to right his wrongs; he ends up outsmarting Mr. Alison and helps the Union Mary formed to achieve its goals, and ends up marrying Elizabeth while on a boat sailing to Hawaii]].
* EatTheEvidence: Mary and John eat the list containing the 400 names of supporting employees [[spoiler: because Mr. Alison, the storemanager manager, was going to use it against those people right after he said he wouldn’t do that]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: John manages to right his wrongs; he ends up outsmarting Mr. Alison and helps the Union Mary formed to achieve its goals, and ends up marrying Elizabeth while on a boat sailing to Hawaii]].
* EatTheEvidence: Mary and John eat the list containing the 400 names of supporting employees [[spoiler: because Mr. Alison, the store
* NeverTrustATitle: One of the covers for the movie makes it seems like it's referring to Joe as "The Devil", when in truth "the Devil" in question is [[spoiler: John]].
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* RightInFrontOfMe: Mary, Elizabeth, and Joe are the last people that should be hanging out with John since he’s trying to destroy their unionization attempts.
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* RightInFrontOfMe: Mary, Elizabeth, and Joe are the last people that should be hanging out with John since he’s trying to destroy their unionization attempts.attempts.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: [[spoiler: Averted; whether or not Joe and Mary will get married is in question in the middle of the film, but at the end, they too get married on the same day that John and Elizabeth do]].
* WillTheyOrWontThey: [[spoiler: Averted; whether or not Joe and Mary will get married is in question in the middle of the film, but at the end, they too get married on the same day that John and Elizabeth do]].
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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Subverted. It seems at first that Joe is just making things worse for John, but eventually he starts to annoy the officers enough with his recital of the constitution that it causes them to suspend, and eventually drop the charges they were going to press against John.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While John Merrick went into this scheme of finding the unionists and breaking their attempt to unionize, he comes to not only sympathize with their plights, he moves to protect them and when they do strike, he keeps his own top executives from calling in the police to break the line. He also has them meet the people to work a fair deal.
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''The Devil and Miss Jones '' is a 1941 [[RomanticComedy Romantic]] ScrewballComedy from the GoldenAgeOfHollywood, directed by Sam Wood.
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''The Devil and Miss Jones '' is a 1941 [[RomanticComedy Romantic]] ScrewballComedy from the GoldenAgeOfHollywood, UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, directed by Sam Wood.
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Under absolutely no circumstances should you confuse this film with ''The Devil '''in''' Miss Jones''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_Miss_Jones Trust us.]]
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Under absolutely no circumstances should you confuse this film with the 1973 pornographic film ''The Devil '''in''' Miss Jones''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_Miss_Jones Trust us.]]
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''The Devil and Miss Jones '' is a 1941 RomanticComedy / ScrewballComedy from the GoldenAgeOfHollywood, directed by Sam Wood.
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''The Devil and Miss Jones '' is a 1941 RomanticComedy / [[RomanticComedy Romantic]] ScrewballComedy from the GoldenAgeOfHollywood, directed by Sam Wood.
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''The Devil and Miss Jones '' is a 1941 RomanticComedy / ScrewballComedyfrom ScrewballComedy from the GoldenAgeOfHollywood, directed by Sam Wood.
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Under absolutely no circumstances should you confuse this film with ''The Devil '''in''' Miss Jones''.
Jones''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_Miss_Jones Trust us.]]
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