She Couldn't Say No (1954 film)

88 minutes^[1]CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

She Couldn't Say No is a 1954 American rural comedy film^[1] starring Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons and Arthur Hunnicutt. It was the last film in the long directing career of Lloyd Bacon to be released (The last film he directed was the musical The French Line starring Jane Russell).

"She Couldn't Say No" was later re-released as Beautiful but Dangerous.

Wealthy Corby Lane (Jean Simmons) visits the American hamlet of Progress, Arkansas, whose residents had paid for a critical medical operation for her when she was a child. She decides to express her gratitude by giving them money anonymously. The headstrong woman clashes with the local doctor, Robert Sellers (Robert Mitchum), who foresees the resulting chaos.

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Cast notes:

• Robert Mitchum disliked the script for the film so much that at one point he went on suspension to avoid appearing in it. It was not the last film he made for RKO, but it was his last RKO film to be released.^[1]

Paramount Pictures originally purchased the property as a vehicle for William Holden, with Dick Powell scheduled to direct, but conflicts with Holden's schedule caused the studio to sell the rights to RKO. The working title for the film was changed from "A Likely Story" to "Beautiful but Dangerous" to avoid confusion with RKO's earlier film A Likely Story, released in 1946. Other working or alternate titles included "Enough for Happiness", "Murder", and "She Had to Say Yes". Principal photography took place between the middle of May and early June 1952.^[1]

• She Couldn't Say No at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• She Couldn't Say No at the TCM Movie Database
• She Couldn't Say No at IMDb
• She Couldn't Say No at AllMovie