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They Knew What They Wanted

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In Garson Kanin: Film directing
…next movie, the romantic drama They Knew What They Wanted, was one of the year’s biggest disappointments despite the presence of Carole Lombard and Charles Laughton. Tom, Dick, and Harry (1941) was a light comedy starring Rogers as a small-town telephone operator who must choose between three suitors (Burgess Meredith,…
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In Carole Lombard
…a deceitful mail-order romance in They Knew What They Wanted (1940). Lombard’s other well-regarded films of the period included the melodrama In Name Only (1939), in which she appeared opposite Cary Grant; the comedy-drama Made for Each Other (1939), costarring James Stewart; and Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941), in which…
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