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    Desk Set (1957)

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    Desk Set starred Katharine Hepburn as Bunny Watson, the head of the library of the Federal Broadcasting Network.

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    The television station is bringing in an efficiency-boosting mega-computer called EMERAC (Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator) – referred to as Miss Emmy – and invites its inventor Richard Sumner (Spencer Tracy) to help ease the process of its installation.

    It’s a room-filling behemoth, with all the requisite bleeps and flashing lights, but only exacerbates the employees’ fears of redundancy when a computing error causes pink slips to be sent out to everyone in the company.

    Set at Christmastime, this cheerfully antiquated farce came from the pen of Henry and Phoebe Ephron, whose daughter Nora would – a generation later – write and direct the quintessential rom-com about the email era: You’ve Got Mail (1998).

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    Richard Sumner
    Spencer Tracy
    Bunny Watson
    Katharine Hepburn
    Mike Cutler
    Gig Young
    Peg Costello
    Joan Blondell
    Sylvia
    Dina Merrill
    Ruthie
    Sue Randall
    Miss Warringer
    Neva Patterson
    Smithers
    Harry Ellerbee
    Azae
    Nicholas Joy
    Alice
    Diane Jergens

    Director
    Walter Lang

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