The Devil and Miss Jones

1941
Approved
1h 32m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

4.9K

YOUR RATING

Jean Arthur in The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)

Screwball Comedy Comedy Romance

A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.

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IMDb RATING

7.6/10

4.9K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 2 nominations total

Trivia
Jean Arthur planned to remake the picture with her as the devil titled "The Devil and Mr. Jones", but that project never materialized.

Goofs
During the beach scene, the people in the background change completely from shot to shot. However, the crowd in the opening shot of the beach scene is the same as the one in the final shot.

Quotes
First Policeman: When they start recitin' the Constitution, watch out!

Crazy credits
The foreword after the opening credits reads: Dear Richest Men in the World: We made up this character in the story, out of our own heads. It's nobody, really. The whole thing is make-believe. We'd feel awful if anyone was offended. Thank you, The Author, Director and Producer. P.S. Nobody sue. P.P.S. Please.

Connections
Featured in Ebert Presents: At the Movies: Episode #1.12 (2011)

Soundtracks
The Blue Danube Waltz, Opus 314
(1867) (uncredited)
Written by Johann Strauss
Played aboard ship at the end and danced by Merrick and the employees.

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Featured review

9/10

heartwarming story set in department store management-labor conflict

This is a wonderful story from the days immediately preceding America's entry into WWII, when the values that made America great were on display in the movies. A powerful department store owner, played by Charles Coburn, gets a job as a lowly clerk in his own store, in order to ferret out the workers who are trying to organize a labor union. He gradually gets caught up in the lives of the clerks in the shoe department (co-stars Jean Arthur, Bob Cummings, Spring Byington, Edmund Gwen) who accept him as just a poor, older man, and his view of things begins to shift. There are some excellent scenes in this movie, especially one in which Coburn is arrested while on a day at the beach with his fellow workers, and has to be kept out of jail by Cummings' bravado. Of course, everything works out well in the end, because this movie was made in the days when good was destined to triumph over evil.