I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Designing Woman is seemingly one of the most retrograde pieces of apple pie and baseball Americana ever to come out of Hollywood. Told with earnest by Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall and director Vincente Minnelli of all people, the movie could be on the short list of Phyllis Schlafly's favorite films. Yet underneath it's sentimental 1950's quaintness, there's a tiny bit worth its nearly two-hour run time.Gregory Peck plays Mike Hagen, a working class, poker playing sports writer who meets the dainty and erudite Marilla who is taking a short vacation from the fashion designing world. They fall in love in the fanciful way movie couples often did in the those days. Then they get married; quickly and without much actual forethought. As the two head back to their homes in Manhattan they suddenly realize they have very little in common and must wrestle with old insecurities and jealousies as well as new high drama when Mike becomes a sought after man.This film thinks it's pulling a Rashomon (1950) but it really isn't The film piques the interest of the viewer with an interesting narrative trick. The film is told past-tense with a litany of narrators all coloring in their versions of the story. Most of the narration is filled in by Mike and Marilla who assure the viewer they haven't argued in months now and when they do they make it through. While this tact is an interesting little ploy, it doesn't really change anything. Sure a coy little aside here and there gives audiences the impression of humor but since the events and their relation to one another are not disputed by unreliable narrators, the whole exercise seems pointless.Peck encapsulates a role first written with Cary Grant in mind. It's easy to tell as Mike is a bit of a cad; goodnatured but still very much the kind of urban illiberal rascal that Grant was famous for. Perhaps it's the fallout of Peck's iconic roll in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) clouding my judgment, but here he just doesn't transcend. His Mike Hagen is broad, pedestrian and seemingly not made of whole cloth but rather an amalgam of earlier snippy leading men like Spencer Tracy's Adam Bonner or Clark Gable's Peter Warne. Lauren Bacall likewise has trouble fitting into her role as the refined Marilla. Part of Bacall's appeal is her earthy sensuousness which is, in a way the opposite of the fussiness required of a woman who is troubled by her beau walking around the apartment shoe-less. Granted, Bacall's early past as a fashion model could have served her well to overcome such superficiality. Unfortunately at the time, her husband Humphrey Bogart was succumbing to cancer of the esophagus.Despite two ill-cast leads, Designing Woman still manages to be marginal entertainment thanks to the supporting characters Maxie Stultz (Shaughnessy) and Randy (Cole). Shaughnessy's punchy sidekick is brimming with the theatrical idiosyncrasies that would give any character actor the urge to stand in front of a mirror and say "yeah I can do this!" Is Maxie a cartoonishly broad Guys and Dolls (1955) knockoff? Sure; but unlike the leads, we don't mind so much. the other real showstopper is famed Choreographer Jack Cole who despite less than ten lines, devises a fight sequence so corporeal, you'd swear Jackie Chan had seen it as a kid in Hong Kong and got ideas.Yet Jack Cole's splashy and spirited brawl is too-little-too-late for this studio-system dud. Designing Woman does little to mix-up the battle of the sexes premise that danced around the Hays Code during the screwball craze of the 1930's. In-fact, in comparison to those films, Designing Woman is rather tame, throwing its matrimonial agenda at the feet of a public that either didn't care or, in today's world are repulsed by its outmoded-ness. Ultimately, it's flat, featureless, dull and doesn't provide anything other than the reliable star power of two Hollywood icons slumming it.

Sports reporter Mike Hagen (Gregory Peck) and fashion designer Marilla Brown (Lauren Bacall) as well as others recall their whirlwind romance and marriage. It begins with Mike attending a golf invitational function in Beverly Hills. He's hungover the next morning and can't remember that he's met her the night before. They have a fun time together and quickly get married. They fly back together to NYC and their lives back home start to drive them apart.It's a functional rom-com with two Hollywood stars. They have reasonable chemistry together. The constant narration with the main premise of these people recounting their story got a bit annoying. I wanted the characters to just have the relationship and not be constantly commenting on it. The movie has its cute moments but no big laughs. Both leads do a fun job.

Gregory Peck certainly showed that he was adept at comedy in this 1957 film a long stream of socially conscious films which were to be his bread and butter throughout his marvelous career.The film is Damon Runyon in character all the way with the different groups in society coming together and eventually forging an alliance to fight the mob.As she did with Robert Stack, the year before in "Written on the Wind," Bacall again marries quickly, this time to Peck.When they come home, they soon see that they share so little in common. However, Peck's writings against boxing thievery gets him into trouble with the mob and the free-for-all brawl at the end is amusing.Dolores Gray is funny as the younger woman, as a punched out fighter, Mickey Shaughnessy steals the scenes that he is in and look for Chuck Connors as a fighter turned mug a riot when he pulls Peck's nose.

This Vincente Minnelli directed comedy/romance film has it's moments, most of all when the elegant Lauren Bacall graces the screen. Gregory Peck tries his best with his part as a sports writer, meeting and marrying fashion designer Bacall after a quick affair. Both don't really know each other, and upon returning home to New York , Peck has quite a time keeping his new wife from meeting his not to happy jilted ex-girlfriend Dolores Gray. If that isn't enough he must leave town after insulting someone in his sports column. Mickey Shaughnessy is quite amusing here playing Maxie Stultz, a punchy ex-pug who is appointed to guard Peck at all times. I quite enjoyed his character who sleeps with his eyes open, with the exasperated Peck declaring, " Open your eyes and go to sleep Maxie." Choreographer Jack Cole saves the day, with a slick impromptu dance that brings down the gangsters trailing Peck. Visually pleasing to watch, with plenty of beautiful fashion's worn by Bacall, this is a film of it's time, and it remains stuck there. If you are a fan of Lauren Bacall, Gregory Peck and films from the 1950's you may find this light comedy entertaining.