History Film / TheDevilAndMissJones

* WillTheyOrWontThey: [[spoiler: Averted; whether or not Joe and [[AccidentalPun Mary will get married]] is in question in the middle of the film, but at the end, they too get married on the same day that John and Elizabeth do]].

Under absolutely no circumstances should you confuse this film with the 1973 pornographic film ''The Devil '''in''' Miss Jones''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_Miss_Jones Trust us.]]

''The Devil and Miss Jones '' is a 1941 [[RomanticComedy Romantic]] ScrewballComedy from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, directed by Sam Wood.

A multi-millionaire tycoon, John P. Merrick (Creator/CharlesCoburn), owns a bothersome department store where employees are raising hell for unionization. Realizing he’s the only one that can stop them after interviewing a so-so detective, he goes undercover as Thomas Higgins: a lowly store clerk who the store higher-ups know is there to spot the rebellious workers.

Awful at being a clerk, he gets help from and befriends Mary Jones (Creator/JeanArthur) who thinks he’s a poor old man down on his luck. Her best friend, Elizabeth (Spring Byington), who also works at the department store, becomes enamoured with Higgins, because she thinks he’s a poor helpless man. John believes them to be fine, upright women… until he finds out that they’re part of the rebelling unionizers. Mary’s boyfriend, Joe O’Brien (Robert Cummings), the leader of the rebelling workers, invites Higgins to their meeting where, to John’s surprise, he’s held as a prime example of the people these workers are trying to help.

A multi-millionaire tycoon, John P. Merrick, (Charles Coburn) owns a bothersome department store where employees are raising hell for unionization. Realizing he’s the only one that can stop them after interviewing a so-so detective, he goes undercover as Thomas Higgins: a lowly store clerk who the store higher-ups know is there to spot the rebellious workers.

* {{Fainting}}: Joe has an Emotional variation of this [[spoiler: when he finds out that Thomas Higgins is actually John P. Merrick]].

* WillTheyOrWontThey: [[spoiler: Averted; whether or not Joe and Mary will get married is in question in the middle of the film, but at the end, they too get married on the same day that John and Elizabeth do]].

* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Subverted. It seems at first that Joe is just making things worse for John, but eventually he starts to annoy the officers enough with his recital of the constitution that it causes them to suspend, and eventually drop the charges they were going to press against John.
* EatTheEvidence: Mary and John eat the list containing the 400 names of supporting employees [[spoiler: because the store manager was going to use it against those people right after he said he wouldn’t do that]].

* RightInFrontOfMe: Mary, Elizabeth, and Joe are the last people that should be hanging out with John since he’s trying to destroy their unionization attempts.

''The Devil and Miss Jones '' is a 1941 [[RomanticComedy Romantic]] ScrewballComedy from the GoldenAgeOfHollywood, directed by Sam Wood.

Under absolutely no circumstances should you confuse this film with ''The Devil '''in''' Miss Jones''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_Miss_Jones Trust us.]]

''The Devil and Miss Jones '' is a 1941 RomanticComedy / ScrewballComedy from the GoldenAgeOfHollywood, directed by Sam Wood.

''The Devil and Miss Jones '' is a 1941 RomanticComedy / ScrewballComedyfrom the GoldenAgeOfHollywood, directed by Sam Wood.

''The Devil and Miss Jones '' is a 1941 RomanticComedy from the GoldenAgeOfHollywood, directed by Sam Wood.

Under absolutely no circumstances should you confuse this film with ''The Devil '''in''' Miss Jones''.

Under no circumstances should you confuse this film with ''The Devil '''in''' Miss Jones''.

Under no circumstances should you confuse this film with ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_Miss_Jones The Devil '''in''' Miss Jones]]''.

''The Devil and Miss Jones ''(1941) is a RomanticComedy from the GoldenAgeOfHollywood directed by Sam Wood.

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[[caption-width-right:350: Laughing at the Devil.]]

* RightInFrontOfMe: Mary, Elizabeth, and Joe are the last people that should be hanging out with John since he’s trying to destroy their unionization attempts.

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: John wants to make commission in his job in order to keep it, and so he gets his personal butler to bring a kid and buy shoes. Although John is no salesman, the girl is a complete brat.

* CassandraTruth: Caught by the police, John tries to tell them that he was pawning his watch so he could make a call to his chauffeur and get him home. They don’t believe him since he wearing a swimsuit (he couldn’t find the bathhouse which he put his clothes and rented this swimming suit from), and has no shoes on. Thinking he’s crazy, they almost toss him in jail.

* EnemiesList: John keeps one; it’s a list of things he finds out about his department store, but quickly turns into a list for firing people. The mean floor manager is the first to be on the list. At first John, puts a question mark if he should fire him, but after screwing him over, he crosses out the question mark. And then, of a secret shopper who give him hell for chewing gum, leaning on the counter, and not attending to her quickly enough.

''The Devil and Miss Jones ''(1941) is a RomanticComedy from the GoldenAgeOfHollywood directed by Sam Wood. A multi-millionaire tycoon, John P. Merrick, (Charles Coburn) owns a bothersome department store where employees are raising hell for unionization. Realizing he’s the only one that can stop them after interviewing a so-so detective, he goes undercover as Thomas Higgins, a lowly store clerk who the store higher-ups know is there to spot the rebellious workers.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Joe breaks up with Mary, because his life as a protester won’t bring them a comfortable life, and she should marry someone who can provide for her. [[spoiler:

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Joe protests inside the store and handcuffs himself around some pipes convinced that security will have to cut through them to get him out. But they easily slide the handcuffs out, because the pipe has an end to it, opposed to continuing somewhere else like the others.

* CassandraTruth: Caught by the police, John tries to tell them that he was pawning his watch so he could make a call to his chauffeur and get him home. They don’t believe him since he has his swimming clothes on (he couldn’t find the bathhouse which he put his clothes and rented this swimming suit from), and no shoes on. Thinking he’s crazy, they almost toss him in jail.

''The Devil and Miss Jones ''(1941) is a RomanticComedy from the GoldenAgeOfHollywood direct by Sam Wood. A multi-millionaire tycoon, John P. Merrick, (Charles Coburn) owns a bothersome department store where employees are raising hell for unionization. Realizing he’s the only one that can stop them after interviewing a so-so detective, he goes undercover as Thomas Higgins, a lowly store clerk who the store higher-ups know is there to spot the rebellious workers.

''The Devil and Miss Jones ''(1941) is a RomanticComedy from the GoldenAgeOfHollywood. A multi-millionaire tycoon, John P. Merrick, (Charles Coburn) owns a bothersome department store where employees are raising hell for unionization. Realizing he’s the only one that can stop them after interviewing a so-so detective, he goes undercover as Thomas Higgins, a lowly store clerk who the store higher-ups know is there to spot the rebellious workers.

[[caption-width-right:350: A cheery Mary Jones. ]]

The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) is a RomanticComedy from the GoldenAgeOfHollywood. A wealthy tycoon, John P. Maverick, (Charles Coburn) owns a bothersome department store where employees are raising hell for unionization. Realizing he’s the only one that can stop them after interviewing a so-so detective, he goes undercover as Thomas Higgins, a lowly store clerk who the store higher-ups know is there to spot the rebellious workers.

Awful at being a clerk, he gets help from and befriends Mary Jones (Creator/JeanArthur) who thinks he’s a poor old man down on his luck. Her best friend, Elizabeth, who also works at the department store, becomes enamoured with Higgins, because she thinks he’s a poor helpless man. John believes them to be fine, upright women… until he finds out that they’re part of the rebelling unionizers. Mary’s boyfriend, Joe O’Brien, the leader of the rebelling workers, invites Higgins to their meeting where, to John’s surprise, he’s held as a prime example of the people these workers are trying to help.

* {{Fainting}}: Joe has an Emotional variation of this [[spoiler: when he finds out that Thomas Higgins is actually John P. Maverick]].

* AmusmentPark: The four friends spend time at Coney Island, and you can see the rides in the background.