The Beautiful Cheat

Dr. Alexander Haven, a Nobel Prize-winning professor of sociology, is asked by his publisher to write a book about juvenile delinquency. Having been the model child, Alex argues that he has no expertise in the subject, so the publisher suggests that he have an underprivileged child live in his household as a test subject. Intrigued, Alex agrees, much to the consternation of his friend and colleague, Dr. Horace Pennypacker, a psychologist with whom he had agreed to go on a fishing trip. As a favor, Horace then goes to the Harcourt Detention Center and asks Grace Woodside, the superintendent, to release her worse delinquent to the study. Horace is informed that he must wait thirty days for processing, but not wanting to hold up his fishing trip because of red tape, he convinces Alice, Woodside's twenty-two-year-old secretary, to pose as a delinquent teenager using the center's records as background. She agrees and her arrival at the Haven home strikes terror in the hearts of Alex's ...


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  • What a Woman!
English Português - Brasil español Português - Portugal
  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 207859
  • Status Released
  • Released United States of America July 20, 1945 Mexico May 10, 1946 Portugal October 18, 1948
  • Content Rating United States of America NR
  • Runtime 59 minutes
  • Genres Drama Comedy Musical Romance
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • Production Company Universal Pictures
  • Distributor Universal Pictures Screen Gems
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