They Knew What They Wanted (1940)

Directors

Garson Kanin

Cast

Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, William Gargan, Harry Carey

The story

When visiting San Francisco, Tony Patucci, an aging illiterate winegrower from the Napa Valley, sees waitress Amy Peters and falls in love. Returning home, he persuades his foreman Joe, an incorrigible womanizer, to write her a letter in Tony's name. Tony's courtship by mail culminates with a proposal, and when she requests a picture of him, he sends one of Joe.

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