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Van Heflin with wife Arlene Dahl, Fred MacMurray with wife Lauren Bacall, and Cornel Wilde with June Allyson are competing for a position left vacant by an executive who has died and left some big boots to be filled in an automobile corporation. Clifton Webb is the President of the company who'll make the decision for the best man for the job (and the best woman) - because she has duties herself - to be an asset to her husband and the company, to be a social butterfly, and just to be ready for anything. Clifton Webb as the President has high expectations for those around him, and he is just the actor for the role, as he has the ego and presence to carry the film on his own. With different personalities and what each can give to the job, Clifton has quite a decision to make. June Allyson is a standout, as she is her usual ebullient self, and Arlene Dahl is decked out to the nines. But of course. As you can tell, I thoroughly enjoyed the film. The characters of the candidates and their spouses are established early on and we feel we are watching real people as they relate to each other in moments of love and moments of disharmony. The film may feel too much like the 1950s and therefore a bit dated, but I think it adds to its entertainment value. But I do grant you the title and how it works itself in is rather corny. But, hey, you're either invested in these peoples' lives or you're not. And, while it may not be that important to be remembered in the long run, Woman's World certainly gives us a chance to see all these stars together. Everyone wins!

Big June Allyson fan when I was a kid, crush and all. The girl next door, after all...but not next door to me. And now, years later, I can see why the crush: she was a doll! That wonderful voice and sweetness of heart. But now, of course - Lauren Bacall has a voice of a different octave, touched with her unique wry delivery. She's a grown-ups dream. So - you all know the story line - 3 men (and their wives as representatives) are up for a position of significance with Clifton Webb the decision maker. Cornel Wilde (Allyson), Fred MacMurray (Bacall) and Van Heflin (Arlene Dahl) are the contenders. Blatant technicolor and wonderful scenes of New York City - where I happen to be from - gloriously displayed and minus the chronic scaffoldings that adorn every street these current days. With their very different personalities, they vie. If you like just a few of these actors, you'll be happy enough. If you like a good story line and are not especially discriminating, you'll be happy enough. A few good scenes - the dress shopping spree with Bacall and Allyson, the last couple of moments of the show down, etc. - are all there is, basically. Clifton Webb, thankfully, toned down the typical superiority that he constantly indulged in. It was 1954 after all and it shows all over the place.

In the fifties, Fox specialized in this multiple stories around one theme stories that were making money and the other studios started to copy. Movies like Three Coins the Fountain, How to marry a millionaire, We're not married!, forcing MGM to make Executive Suite which A woman's World is a lot like. One of three men will get the high post of a high-up executive in charge of production for a car company? Who it will be will be decided by the kind of woman they are married to. This film calmly taking its time shows the nuisances of the businessworld, the path to success and failure; the folly/desire for power in the nature of man by contrasting all the characters. The ending is a surprise and so is the movie. And most importantly, it gets better with every viewing.

Last night I saw Woman's World: The plot concerns three hot shot salesmen who have been summoned to New York for consideration as the general manager of a fictional automobile company. They salesmen are asked to bring their wives along as the company president believes his executives need the proper kind of wife to be an effective senior manager. Much intrigue, drama, and hilarity ensue.

Ford motor company participated significantly in this movie. In addition to a large number of 1954 Ford products, the movie featured two Ford fiftieth anniversary concept cars from 1953: the X-100 and the XL-500

At the beginning of the movie, one couple is shown driving to New York in a Mercury Monterey.

The lead character played by Clifton Web is the president of 'Gifford Motors. Gifford Motors' cars all resemble Ford Motor Company cars. In one scene, the lobby of the Gifford building is shown with the X-100 and the XL-500 displayed. A Gifford manager is demonstrating the features of the X-100 to a member of the public. The Plexiglas roof panel is shown automatically sliding into position as the windows rise to prevent the interior from being damaged in case it rained while the car was left open. Apparently this was a big problem in the 50s as 'automatically closing in case of rain' was a feature of many concept cars including the Buick LeSabre.

Later, the three wives are given a tour of New York in the X-100 with street scenes of the car in front of the New York Public Library and the United Nations among other locations.

Throughout the movie, company executives come and go in a Lincoln sedan and a convertible.

In one scene the president take the three potential general managers to the 'proving grounds' where we see a variety of Fords whizzing around a banked oval at high speeds with appropriate sound effects.

Another scene shows a futuristic feature being demonstrated by three large-scale tabletop models of prototype cars: one model drives forward, stops, makes a whirring sound, and then moves sideways into a parking space between the other two models. Presumably it was lowering dolly wheels when it made the whirring sound. This was a 50s approach to solving the age-old parallel parking problem for which solutions are still being pursued today – see the latest Lexus automatic parallel parking feature. A boardroom scene also shows a tabletop model although it's not clear if it's different from the previous three. There is also a scene in the interior design department with many prototype seats of varying color and design.

In addition to being a great movie, it is a real treat for lovers of early 50s Ford products.

Watching how the actors are strategically placed on screen while performing their chores in WOMAN'S WORLD made me recall how seldom close-ups were used when CinemaScope was new. Instead, medium shots are used almost extensively so that the screen is filled by someone standing far left and the other far right. Occasionally the camera does move in a little closer for an over the shoulder shot, but it's obvious that CinemaScope was new and lensing a film in Wide Screen was not an easy matter.

The performances are all interesting, with LAUREN BACALL and ARLENE DAHL coming off best, while JUNE ALLYSON is forced to play a klutzy housewife with too many slip-ups to be tolerable. CLIFTON WEBB is the auto executive who wants to examine the wives of men he's considering for a top job at his auto plant. The men are well played by VAN HEFLIN, CORNEL WILDE and FRED MacMURRAY.

If you liked films like EXECUTIVE SUITE, all about climbing the corporate ladder, you'll enjoy this one--and furthermore it has sumptuous settings enhanced by color photography. Women will enjoy all the costumes and men will stay tuned to see which man Webb chooses for his open executive job.

Witty dialogue helps with Lauren Bacall handling her lines with the kind of skill she always brought to these kind of roles. Arlene Dahl shows a little more skill than usual as an actress with a strong confrontational scene with Webb.

Worth a look, but don't expect anything deep.

Very good cast highlight this film. Also great fashions. Arlene Dahl steals the film as an ambitious, scheming wife. All in all-worth seeing!!

WOMANS'S WORLD cries out for a DVD transfer. When will it be? It has everything a Fox film of the 50's had. CinemaScope, color, stereo sound, all star cast, New York settings and a sensational musical score. The seven stars really shine here. Clifton Webb is .. well Clifton Webb and does his Clifton Web to the hilt. The men Cornel Wilde; Fred MacMurray and Van Heflin couldn't be better. The women are even better. Lauren Bacall is her usual sophisticated self and is at her best, even better than in HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE. June Allyson is a delight as the not-so-in with it wife, and Arlene Dahl steals the show with her red hair and ample figure. Although I think Marilyn Monroe would have really excelled in the role as well. The plot line is fun and quite exciting as to who will be the new general manager of a car company. Who gets the job and why is a nice twist. So come on Fox, get this on DVD...NOW.

The story is set in high-powered New York, where an executive in the automotive industry brings in three candidates for a position well up on the corporate ladder. Each man brings his wife along, and as the film proceeds, it's clear that the wives are a factor in considering which of the men will be chosen.

The film shows that there was an unspoken market understanding that an important influence in car purchases is the opinion of the wife of a family. This, again, relates to the film's title.

In one respect, the film is a bit like a mini-Grand Hotel; that is, we get a glance of the personal situations and concerns of each family. But the film spends more than a little time showing off potential automotive designs.

The decision as to whom the position is given pivots on the realization of one of the candidates as to what his handicap is. Given the title of the film, the decision is rather ironic.

In the 1950's, there were three excellent movies about the corporate world: "Executive Suite" (1954), "Woman's World" (1954), and "Patterns" (1956). June Allyson was lucky to be in the first two movies. "Executive Suite" - a heavy drama about replacing the deceased CEO; and in "Woman's World" - a serious comedy about replacing the general manager. What all three movies have in common, is that they are perfectly cast.

In "Woman's World", the concern is picking the right man with the right wife for the job. Of the three movies mentioned, this is my favorite movie about the corporate world. It's been fifty years since these movies have been made and no current movie has come close to portraying the business world. Back then when there was censorship, the movie world was still able to make good movies about the business world. There should be no excuse why writers can't make movies like they did years ago. Only on television, they did succeed and make the TV movie, "Barbarians at the Gate" (1993).

There are three separate stories about three couples being considered for the job. All three couples were perfectly cast, however, they never worked as couples again. They should have! Of the three couples, my favorite were Van Heflin and Arlene Dahl, portraying a married couple from Texas. They were a great team! Arlene Dahl complimented Van Heflin and Clifton Webb.

While Clifton Webb, the CEO of the automobile company, was looking for the next general manager, he was at his most attractive and authoritative best. Rounding out the cast, the next two big roles were played by Elliott Reid, playing the nephew, and by Margalo Gillmore, as the sister-in-law. They were never better!

The movie is highly thought provoking and as a management person, I have to think of whether the choice was really right ?

There are three persons, all equally brilliant track record - and are being evaluated for the ultimate (or next to), the CEO of a megalith. The evaluation is done by the President and his confidantes - sister, and nephew. Naturally with equally brilliant performance on line of duty, the line-off-duty too need to be looked at, and for that the best measure considered was to call the wives too and evaluate the wives along with the respective husbands.

Couple #1 - off-duty meek husband and highly ambitious and glamorous wife (Dahl), who would go to any., and I mean ANY extent to further her husband's career.

Couple #2- no off-duty husband. The smart but not too glamorous wife (Bacall) is lonely (though tagging along, since she still genuinely cares), but the husband doesn't have time for wife or children.

Couple#3 - balanced - despite success, family man - deeply devoted couple - though the wife is naive and non sophisticated - a typical housewife who would be fish out of water in high-society gathering.

As a selector, with the men being equal, the selection committee looked at their respective women. Were they looking for the drag coefficient ? As seemed to be from the ending part, as if they were looking how much the wives were handicap to the husbands. Of course that would be one way of looking at the Potential of the candidates - how much they could further, and move away from competition, if the drag was removed ?

To clarify, all these wives were not a drag. In fact they were practically promoting their husbands - one directly, another by being silent and uncomplaining sufferer, and the third through direct emotional support. The selector had to now decide on the drag these spouses still offered and could their men somehow would be able to neutralize the drag ?

To be frank, I don't know if the selection was right. After all some one, who knew of the major handicap (he said it), but didn't do anything about it, for years, can't be the person who goes to the position where every strategic decision have to be taken quickly.

He could be out of the handicap, but that's not what one looks for, it is the quick and right decision making. On that aspect it was wrong. may eb an excellent movie for HR debates.

Ernest Gifford (Clifton Webb) is the owner of the highly successful Gifford Motors. After his General Manager worked himself to death, he has to find a replacement. He has invited three of his best men and their wives to New York City. He views the wives as important as the men. Bill (Cornel Wilde) and Katie Baxter (June Allyson) are a loving middle America couple. Elizabeth Burns (Lauren Bacall) is estranged from her workaholic husband Sidney (Fred MacMurray). Jerry Talbot (Van Heflin) has ambitious wife Carol (Arlene Dahl).

From the title, I was expecting more from the ladies point of view. The men are unimportant and are basically the same. That would be different enough from other business movies to be interesting. In a way, the ladies are the more compelling characters and vastly different from each other. I really like June Allyson even thought she turns overly slapstick in one scene. I like Lauren Bacall. I think Arlene Dahl could be more vicious. A more scheming character would heighten the drama. All together, these are mostly compelling characters.

I agree with positive reviews here; the film is an entertaining, well made, confection of 1950's upper class fantasy. Very well written script, and excellent performances from the entire cast. The late great Becall is a standout.

But Fox Cinema Achives made to order DVD (similar to Warner Archives products) is very subpar. Anyone who purchases it is being ripped off (I watched a copy from my public library).

The film is presented in a shrunken letterbox format with wide black areas around the borders; the sort of thing they sometimes used to do when formatting widescreen movies for square TV screens. In fact the video transfer they used was obviously done decades ago. The film looks grainy, colors washed out, and it's not presented in the full Cinemascope aspect ratio, so sides of what picture is shown are cropped. Given what many films of the same era look like when the DVD company spends even a moderate amount of money to do an up to date video transfer (I'm not even talking about a restoration here) this is not acceptable.

This is the first Fox Cinema Archives DVD I've seen; if this is typical of the product they put out, I'd pass up all of their products.

Slick, superficial CinemaScope stuff from Hollywood's early-'50s panic attack: How ya gonna keep 'em down at the flicks after they've seen TV? Fox tried to with big screens, splashy colors, and half a dozen or so stars crammed into one entertaining soap-opera premise. There's no cinema-making genius going on here, but the movie is overwhelmingly entertaining, both for its look and its morality. A consumerist's paradise, it's so stuffed with cars and gowns and doodads that you're seized with an overwhelming urge to go shopping after you've seen it. (The cars, in particular, are '50s-futurists designs from Ford/Lincoln/Mercury, and they're knockouts.) And the morality is so utterly of its time: The onscreen drinking and smoking are nonstop, the gender premises (men seek power, women seek men) are unquestioned, and the subtext is clearly that money and power are fine, but holding on to your man is what really counts. And to do that, you'd better learn to be a dear little klutzy wifey like June Allyson instead of a calculating harlot like Arlene Dahl. Of the women, Allyson's wife-waif act becomes monotonous, and while Dahl is luscious to look at and seems to be in on the joke of how one-note her character is, she's not really much of an actress. So Bacall, her crisp-sophisticate act honed to a fine sharpness, comes off best by default. The men are all OK, but New York is the real star.

Initially skeptical about "Woman's World" (1954), especially since it was directed by Jean Negulesco, whose previous work hadn't impressed me, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of this romantic drama. The film's great merit lies in its impeccable cast. June Allyson, commonly perceived as bland, delivers a hilarious and touching performance as the naive Katie, while Lauren Bacall and Arlene Dahl exude elegance and charm as the sophisticated wives of Ralph (Fred MacMurray) and Ernest (Van Heflin), respectively. Clifton Webb, with his imposing demeanor, commands the screen as the acerbic Mr. Pendergast. MacMurray and Wilde overflow with sympathy in their roles, while Heflin demonstrates his versatility as an actor.

The plot revolves around Katie's "mishaps" and the "schemes" of the ambitious Carla (Dahl), while their husbands vie for the coveted position of company president. Despite the focus on the women, it's a shame that the three husbands are relegated to the background in the story.

Tension mounts as we try to guess which of the candidates will be chosen. The narrative holds some surprises, and I confess I guessed the outcome correctly.

"Woman's World" is a light and enjoyable film, ideal for those seeking quality entertainment. The chemistry between the actors, sharp dialogue, and Negulesco's competent direction (which excels here) ensure a rewarding cinematic experience. I recommend it to all lovers of classic romantic comedies and films with stellar casts.

Initially I was intrigued by the title and after investigating on IMDB was impressed by the actors all well known and respected. The premise is interesting however done in other films. This was a very pleasant movie with beautiful scenes of New York City and Long Island. Women's clothes quite lovely especially Lauren Bacall who can wear a dress like none other. While I was puzzled about the ending figured it out half way through. All characters played perfectly ie Clifton Webb his usual snobbish arrogant role. My only annoyance was June Allison's character a bit over the top and too stupid to be believed. I guess she does that role well. Favorite wife: Lauren Bacall favorite husband Van Heflin. He is an underrated actor who has played a wide range of roles always excellent.

This film is worth watching.

Marvelous entertainment for those who enjoy pretty people dealing with superficial problems in sumptuous settings.

Breezily directed by Negulesco who never lets the handsome trappings overshadow the various goings on. But having the advantage of Cinemascope at his disposal and the setting of New York he makes sure the plush settings are on full view.

He is fortunate to have in every role an actor or star who knows how to register on screen and having the roles and pairs matched so perfectly.

Clifton Webb is upper class dignity personified making Mr. Gifford a humorous, wise, snobbish, mannerly figurehead who turns out to be nobody's fool. As his upper crust sister Margalo Gilmore is a charming delight in her brief scenes.

The three couples vying for the top spot in the company are a fun study of marriage in the 50's.

June Allyson and Cornel Wilde are the sweet small town happily marrieds who love each other and have learned how to balance his upward mobility and a stable home life even if at times June can't help but make a bit of a fool of herself. It's also nice that even though Cornel is incredibly good looking nothing is made of it to make him stand out he just is handsome and that's that.

Van Heflin and Arlene Dahl are the picture of Texas ambition and a hunger to get ahead. Arlene, with as another character points out prime Texas steaks in exactly the right places, is lovely in an over ripe way and her brazenness is a treat to behold with Van's gravity a nice counter balance.

Best of all are the troubled pair of Fred MacMurray and Lauren Bacall. Fred is fine as the stolid man so desperate to get somewhere that he has almost lost what means the most to him but it is Betty Bacall who takes top acting honors as the wounded, wary but good natured and wry Liz. She is slyly knowing in all her line reading but able to show the vulnerability just under the surface. Very good performances in the type of film often loaded with ordinary work.

About those settings, you get to see an aerial view of 50's New York plus many of the sights and the quaintly called country house is a mansion of impressive size and richly appointed rooms. And of course when everybody dresses up they are gowned in amazing clothes and wearing jewels worth many fortunes. A good time.

Excellent film depicting 3 nominated men for a top executive job at Gifford Motors.

The ever perfect Clifton Webb shall decide who gets this top spot.

The nominees are Cornel Wilde, Fred MacMurray and Van Heflin, but their wives shall play a crucial role in determining who gets the job since Webb is from the old school that behind every man is a woman....

June Allyson, married to Wilde, is terrific as the ditsy-klutzy wife who can't seem to do anything right. She really doesn't want her husband to get the job and she makes no bones about it.Lauren Bacall is wed to MacMurray. Their marriage has hit the rocks and Bacall vows to leave him after he gets the precious job. She sees the job as a stress-related killer. The most vicious of them is Heflin's Arlene Dahl-vicious to the hilt, she will do anything to get her man the top post.

The ending is marvelously staged and well deserved to all the contestants and their respective spouses.

Woman's World was recommended to me through a friend of the family, and I'm very glad they did! Through the 94 minutes of this film, I was laughing out loud constantly (mainly because of June Allyson's goofy character), but also on the edge of my seat wondering who would get the job! It's rather sad that this isn't as well known as it should be, because it is a real laugh but also very climatic.

Three men are up for a major promotion in a car company and the man in charge (Clifton Webb) decides that each are fit for the job, but his decision will be based on one thing: their wives. Bill (Cornel Wilde) and Katie (June Allyson) care about each other too much to sacrifice seeing each other often. Sid (Fred MacMurray) and Elizabeth (Lauren Bacall) fight constantly as her husband is a workaholic, which causes trouble with his health. Jerry (Van Helfin) and Carol (Arlene Dahl) seem to want the job too much, and Carol goes to extreme lengths in an effort to make Jerry get the job.

Woman's World is nothing deep or revolutionary, it's just a classy comedy (I could watch it for the fashions alone!) with some big stars. It does look dated from today's standards, but I still really enjoyed it! The plot stays the same (in many ways, this is good) throughout the movie. Simply, sophisticated and elegant. Great 1954 comedy.

Big, glossy drama about three men (and their wives) competing for a top job at a glossy auto company in glossy New York City. This is one of many of those mid-century films that touted NYC as the greatest city in the world what with its wealth of money and arts and society and all those tall buildings.

In this one Clifton Webb plays the imperial head of the Gifford Auto Co., which boasts its cars are "luxury on wheels." He's interviewing three company men for the general manager job. There's the rather grim Van Heflin from Dallas, easy-going Cornel Wilde from Kansas City, and the up-from-the-ranks Fred MacMurray from Philadelphia. Each one wants ... or thinks he wants ... the big job.

Then there are the wives. Webb tells us over and over again the the manager's wife must also be a special type of gracious thing who'll fit into the Long Island set. Heflin's wife is a man-eater and a social climber (Arline Dahl), Wilde's wife is the homey but not-so-dumb type (June Allyson), and MacMurray's is the salt-of-the-earth type (Lauren Bacall).

Each couple has some private domestic dramas to deal with as they are dazzled by Emerald City and as the men jockey for position. Dahl heads right for the prize (Webb) while Bacall and Allyson deal with life in the big city. Funniest scene has the latter two going to a "bargain basement" to buy an evening dress for Allyson and almost being killed in the mob of hysterical women. Film culminates in a weekend party at Webb's Long Island estate where his sister (Margalo Gilmore) assesses the wives.

As the title suggests, the women basically take the story while the men drone their way through the auto factory etc. And while the men are pretty much forgettable, the gals (and Webb) have a high old time. Allyson and Bacall are especially good. As for the cars, the various models are Fords and Mercurys and Lincolns (minus any emblems) are showcased and the story includes one of those "cars of tomorrow" scenes that's quite fascinating.

Also in the cast are Elliott Reid as the nephew, Alan Reed as the Italian restaurateur, and look fast for Billie Bird, Kathryn Card, and Elinor Donahue in the bargain basement.

Highly enjoyable mid-century drama with a dash of comedy.

I'm not sure how the movers and shakers of television never saw the Dynasty like possibilities in It's A Woman's World. Who knows, maybe some sharp TV executive will read this critique and act on it.

Lots of star power operating here and nicely mixed by Director Jean Negulesco. Automobile industry scion Clifton Webb is looking for a new general manager of Gifford Motors. His three top candidates are his franchise managers in Dallas (Van Heflin), Philadelphia (Fred MacMurray), and Kansas City(Cornel Wilde). Webb brings all three of them and their wives to New York so he evaluate all of them, including the spouses.

Van Heflin and Texas gal Arlene Dahl are ambitious, but she far more than he. Fred MacMurray and Lauren Bacall are on the verge of splitting up over his total dedication to his job, Bacall doesn't want her hubby to have it because that ulcer he's got will exponentially increase and eventually kill him. Cornel Wilde would like the job, but not if it means upsetting homebody wife June Allyson. Who will get the nod. Watch the film boys and girls.

Clifton Webb is still the aesthete and as acerbic as ever, but he's toned down some from Laura and The Razor's Edge and Belvedere films. Still he's a joy to watch, silently evaluating those three Hollywood hunks.

One thing I can't figure out. All the major automobile companies main offices are in Detroit. So why isn't the film located there, especially since Webb and the other three visit a factory? Answer; Detroit just ain't got the glamor of the Big Apple, never has never will. It wouldn't be that much of a stretch from Kansas City to Detroit for June Allyson and Arlene Dahl would look real silly saying to Van Heflin that she's fallen in love with Detroit. This was before the Ewing family made Dallas chic, you know.

It may have been a Woman's World back then, but a Woman's World consisted of just being in support of the male breadwinner. If the film were made today, one of the women would be an executive in the film. If not for reality, definitely for political correctness.

Which brings up an interesting possibility. Clifton Webb was the closest thing to an out male movie star that gay people had back then. One of the big "inside" jokes of the time was one of the wives offering up her body to Webb for that promotion for hubby. If one of the husbands offered himself to Webb for his wife's promotion, I don't think Webb would have turned down any of them, especially Cornel Wilde.

It's nice soap opera if your taste runs to that kind of film and maybe we'll see a 21st century version of it yet.

An auto magnate invites three company executives to NYC to look them -and their wives- over to decide which one gets to be second-in-command...

This all-star ensemble film is a throwback to 30's fare like DINNER AT EIGHT & GRAND HOTEL and runs rings around its competition -the turgid EXECUTIVE SUITE (made the same year). It's a sleek, tres sophisticated time capsule of America's mores & morals in the Fab 50's and the stellar cast shines in tailor-made roles, especially Arlene Dahl as a scheming doll trying to sleep her husband's way to the top. She'd later steal the show in 1956's SLIGHTLY SCARLET. Boasting Cinemascope, snappy dialogue, stunning NYC locations and competent direction by Jean Negulesco, one can only imagine what Douglas Sirk could have done with this amusing opus. A "dramedy" is what it would probably be called today.

A 1954 review: "Some movies are wonderful because they look so expensive -that's the biggest charm of "Woman's World". Those gorgeous gowns distributed between Arlene Dahl and Lauren Bacall, those flashy automobiles of the future sparkling like jewels on display, those breathtaking, panoramic views of New York, the Wonder City. And seven movie stars generously sharing the Technicolor light. Clifton Webb is here with his urbane, supercilious manner, as president of Gifford Motors, an outrageously prosperous business empire. He's looking for a new general manager to replace the old one, now dead. He invites the three brightest men in his organization to New York. More important, he invites their wives. The ladies, in fact, will be the decisive factors in his choice. Fred MacMurray, his ulcer and his estranged mate, Lauren Bacall, arrive from Philadelphia. Out of Texas come Van Heflin and the powerfully seductive Arlene Dahl. And Cornel Wilde planes in from Kansas City with his very lovable but painfully unsophisticated spouse -June Allyson. There follows a tense, grueling struggle for position which starts at the swank Plaza Hotel and plays itself out on a Connecticut estate where Webb's sister (Margalo Gillmore) gives the candidates a final once-over. Much is revealed about husbands, wives and worldly ambition in this slick, entertaining film."

Highly recommended!

WOMAN'S WORLD has finally made it to DVD. Bout' time...It's released thru Fox Archive. Glad it isn't panned and scanned, but wish it were in full scope instead of scaled down. By that I mean it's letter-boxed the way it was filmed, but formatted for a square screen. Who has square screens nowadays? The plot is interesting centering on which one of three men will be promoted to General Manager of an automobile company. The three men and their wives are invited to New York to be 'looked' over for the job. The wives would play an important role when it comes to the final choice. Good acting by the three couples and Clifton Webb is perfect as the head honcho. Who will get the job. Interesting how it turns out. There are nice shots of old New York as second unit as I don't think anyone left the 20th Century Fox lot. Rear projection is a problem here. Anyway, this is a must see if one likes good old stars, good story and especially a nice plush musical score. This is a MUST SEE. As someone stated before, it would have been great to cast MM in the Arlene Dahl role. Guess what? This is a very entertaining movie without one single car crash, no buildings blown up, no violence, no nudity and No F...words!! Amazing isn't it? Could just imagine how it would be if there would be a remake in todays market.