Woman's World (1954)

The owner (Clifton Webb) of a major automobile company invites three candidates (Cornel Wilde, Fred MacMurray, Van Heflin), along with their wives (June Allyson, Lauren Bacall, Arlene Dahl), to New York in order to evaluate the men for the position of general manager of the company. But he feels a wife can be a major asset (or liability) so the wives are scrutinized too. Jean Negulesco (THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN) directs this sophisticated CinemaScope entertainment and it's a treat to see that an intelligent script doesn't get lost in the glossy wide screen glamour. It's like EXECUTIVE SUITE, another corporate themed drama released the same year (1954), but in a lighter though no less thoughtful vein. Allyson (coincidentally one of the stars of EXECUTIVE SUITE) gives what may be her best performance as the gauche Kansas City housewife pitifully unprepared for the cosmopolitan lifestyle of the New York corporate environment. With Elliott Reid and Margalo Gillmore.