Overview
Sheridan Whiteside – critic, lecturer, wit, radio orator, intimate friend of the great and near-great – dines at the home of the Stanleys, where he slips on their doorstep and breaks his hip. The result is a tumultuous six weeks of confinement.
Whiteside turns the Stanley household upside down, forcing everyone in town to cater to his egotistical demands. Meanwhile, his secretary has given her notice after falling in love with a local reporter, and Whiteside must engage every weapon in his considerable arsenal of guile and manipulation to keep her in his employ – including blackmail, deceit and the intervention of the fading actress Lorraine Sheldon combined with the elegant British wit of playwright Beverly Carlton.
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