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The Lady Is Willing
UNITED STATES · 1942

The Lady Is Willing

Mitchell Leisen
marriage of convenience adoption Broadway performer scientific research found family
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Synopsis

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr

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