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02/15/2006 Archived Entry: "The Devil and Miss Jones"

Many of the movies that TCM is showing in their Oscar run-up I've seen many times, but this one was new to me: The Devil and Miss Jones (TCM writeup), with great character actor Charles Coburn giving second billing to Jean Arthur. The world's richest man (whose appearance is unaccountably unknown) decides to go undercover in a department store he's forgotten he owned, to root out employee activism. The humor was great -- fish out of water, physical comedy, and more -- with the ending the weakest point: a slapped-on happy-ever-after wedding. See it!