She Wrote the Book Plot Summary and Details

Plot

In this comedy, a puritanical math teacher at a midwestern university is forced by the dean's wife to go to New York to collect the royalties for a naughty romance the latter wrote under a penname. Unfortunately, while there, the professor suffers a blow to the noodle and wakes up believing that she wrote the torrid little tome. Now she finds herself being manipulated by a clever publisher who has the phony writer become passionately involved with a bogus Russian nobleman. Later the woman's memory returns and she goes back to her dull, well-ordered life on campus.

MPAA Rating:

Genre(s):

Comedy

Run Time:

74min.

Distributor(s):

Universal

Director(s):

Charles Lamont

Starring:

Joan Davis , Jack Oakie , Mischa Auer , Kirby Grant , John Litel

Keywords:

Russia,accident,amnesia,aristocracy,book,campus,college,dean,faculty,head-injury,impersonation,mathematics,midwestern,professor,publicity,publicity-stunt,publisher,romance,royalties [payment],teacher,university,wife,writing