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{{Infobox film
| name = Woman Hater
| image = "Woman_Hater"_(1948).jpg
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| director = [[Terence Young (director)|Terence Young]]
| producer = [[William Sistrom]]
| writer = [[Nicholas Phipps]] <br> [[Robert Westerby]]
| based_on = story by [[Alec Coppel]]
| starring = [[Stewart Granger]] <br /> [[Edwige Feuillère]] <br /> [[Ronald Squire]]
| music = [[Lambert Williamson]]
| cinematography = André Thomas
| editing = Vera Campbell
| studio = [[Two Cities Films]]
| distributor = [[General Film Distributors]]
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1948|10|13}}
| runtime = 105 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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'''''Woman Hater''''' is a 1948 British [[romantic comedy]] film directed by [[Terence Young (director)|Terence Young]] and starring [[Stewart Granger]], [[Edwige Feuillère]] and [[Ronald Squire]].<ref>{{cite web| url= http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/58442 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090113233105/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/58442 | url-status= dead | archive-date= January 13, 2009 | title= Woman Hater (1948) | website= bfi.org.uk | publisher= BFI | access-date= February 19, 2019}}</ref> The screenplay concerns Lord Datchett, who, as a consequence of a bet with his friends, invites a French film star to stay at his house but pretends to be one of his employees while he tries to romance her with the help of his butler. When she discovers his subterfuge, she decides to turn the tables on him.<ref>{{cite news|title=Woman Hater|work=Monthly Film Bulletin|location=London|volume=15|issue=169|date=Jan 1, 1948|page=156 }}</ref>

==Plot==
Lord Datchett believes women are vain, trivial and dull. He is irritated when French film star Colette Marly arrives in London and takes the table in a restaurant where he wanted to sit. He is scathing of her claims in the newspaper that she is tired of [[publicity]] and of men pursuing her, believing it to be an attempt to get more attention. He predicts that if she were really left alone she would throw herself at the first man she met. After being challenged by a man at his club, Datchett decides to invite her to stay at his house, aiming to stage a "scientific experiment" and prove his theory.

Marly is weary of the demands of her publicity-seeking agent and being besieged by [[autograph]] hunters and journalists. When she receives Datchett's invitation to stay at his house, she accepts in the hope of some solitude. Arriving at his [[country house]] with her [[maid]] Clair, she is greeted by Datchett's butler Jameson and Lord Datchett who pretends to be Henry Dodds, Datchett's [[estate manager]]. The other staff have also been informed to help maintain the deception.

Datchett tries to discover more about Marly, but she is initially unforthcoming. Slowly they become friendly, after they go riding and when Datchett contrives for them to get locked in a cellar for several hours and get drunk on [[brandy]]. Clair meanwhile flirts with both Jameson and Patrick, the Irish gardener, provoking them into jealousy and rivalry.

When Reverend Meadows arrives at the house with a [[Infant baptism|christening]] party for whom Datchett had previously agreed to be a [[Godparent|godfather]], Marly accidentally discovers Datchett's true identity. Her first angry reaction is to prepare to leave, but then she decides to play along with Datchett's pretense, but intending to teach him a lesson. While out [[boating]] on a lake, she pretends to be in distress so that he can rescue her, but when he is knocked unconscious, she becomes the rescuer, but makes him believe he did it.

Datchett's elderly mother Lady Datchett arrives, and he persuades her to join in the ploy and she tries, but without much success. Eventually, Datchett admits he is in love with her and Marly triumphantly reveals that she knows who he really is and what she has done. He goes away, crestfallen, but she then realises she is in love with him.

At the suggestion of Clair, Marly stages a drowning for a second time. Datchett, about to return to London after admitting the experiment was a failure, hears her cries for help and goes to rescue her, but once again, she ends up rescuing him. Safely on the bank, they confess their mutual love and embrace.

==Cast==
* [[Stewart Granger]] as Lord Datchett
* [[Edwige Feuillère]] as Colette Marly
* [[Ronald Squire]] as Jameson
* [[Jeanne de Casalis]] as Clair
* [[Michael Medwin]] as Harris
* [[Miles Malleson]] as Reverend Meadows
* [[James Hayter (actor)|James Hayter]] as Burrell the gatekeeper
* [[Dandy Nichols]] as Mrs Burrell
* [[Mary Jerrold]] as Lady Datchett
* [[David Hutcheson]] as Robert
* W.A. Kelly as Patrick
* [[Georgina Cookson]] as Julia
* [[Henry Edwards (actor)|Henry Edwards]] as Major
* [[Stewart Rome]] as Colonel Weston
* [[Valentine Dyall]] as Spencer
* [[Graham Moffatt]] as Autograph hunter
* [[Davy Burnaby]] as Grandfather
* [[Vi Kaley]] as Grandmother
* [[Peter Bull]] as Fletcher
* [[Irene Handl]] as Mrs Fletcher
* Eddie Sutch as Harry Fletcher

==Production==
In January 1948, it was announced Australian writer Alec Coppel had sold a story to Stewart Granger called ''Woman Hater''. French actor Edwige Feuillère would co star.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55908611 |title=THIS WEEK. |newspaper=[[The Mail (Adelaide)|The Mail]] |location=Adelaide |date=24 January 1948 |access-date=20 June 2015 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> The casting of French actor was announced shortly afterwards.

Granger was one of the biggest stars in British cinema at the time, best known for appearing in melodramas. He said he wanted to make the film as it gave him a chance to appear in a comedy.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49654103 |title=The stars look down (their noses). |newspaper=[[The Courier-Mail]] |location=Brisbane |date=8 May 1948 |access-date=3 June 2012 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

Feuillère arrived in London in mid-February. She had been learning English for three months, a process interrupted by appearing on the Paris stage in ''[[The Eagle Has Two Heads]]'' which had been a huge success.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article229042614 |title=French star brings the latest mode |newspaper=[[The Sun (Sydney)|The Sun]] |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=15 February 1948 |access-date=15 June 2020 |page=23 |via=Trove }}</ref> She was one of a number of French actors appearing in British films at the time, others including [[Mila Parély]] in ''[[Snowbound (1948 film)|Snowbound]]'', [[Anne Vernon]] in ''[[Warning to Wantons]]'', and [[Anouk Aimée]] in ''[[The Golden Salamander]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22717913 |title=Gossip Among Stars |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]] |location=Melbourne|date=22 March 1949 |access-date=15 June 2020 |page=5 (The Argus Woman's Magazine) |via=Trove }}</ref>

Filming took started in March 1948, mostly taking place at [[Denham Studios]] with sets designed by the [[art director]] [[Carmen Dillon]]. [[Location shooting|Location work]] was done in [[Warwickshire]] at [[Compton Wynyates]], the home of the [[Marquis of Northampton]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55904348 |title=SCREEN-STAGE JOBS FOR "ROOM" STARS. |newspaper=[[The Mail (Adelaide)|The Mail]] |location=Adelaide |date=19 June 1948 |access-date=20 June 2015 |page=3 Supplement: SUNDAY MAGAZINE |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> "Comedy is serious business", said Granger. "It is not always easy to get into the spirit of light hearted sophisticated comedy."<ref>{{cite news|title=Round the British Studios|author=Nepean, Edith.|work=Picture Show|location=London|volume=52|issue=1345|date=Jul 10, 1948|page=7}}</ref>

The art director, editor, set designer and casting director on the film were all women.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225455825 |title=SIX WOMEN WERE BEHIND FILM PRODUCTION |newspaper=[[Weekly Times]] |location=Victoria, Australia |date=28 February 1951 |access-date=15 June 2020 |page=46 |via=Trove }}</ref>

==Reception==
The film was released in London in October 1948. British critics were harsh on Granger's performance.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article76035873 |title=STAR FLOPS AS COMIC |newspaper=[[The Mirror (Western Australia)|The Mirror]] |location=Western Australia |date=6 November 1948 |access-date=15 June 2020 |page=15 |via=Trove }}</ref>

''Variety'' said "Normally, farce doesn't call for much in story values, but relies on laughter-raising situations and snappy dialog. With ''Woman Hater'' the situations are too obviously contrived and the dialog so patently transparent that many of the frivolous interludes lose much of their value, and only serve to underline the thinness of the plot."<ref>[https://archive.org/details/variety172-1948-10/page/n184/mode/1up?q=%22woman+hater%22+ Review of film] at Variety</ref>

The film did not appear on the list of the "most notable attractions" at the British box office in 1948 or 1949.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xtGIAgAAQBAJ&dq=hungry+hill+film+box+office&pg=PA209 Robert Murphy, ''Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939–48'' 2003 p211]</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/Screen_Volume_32_Issue_3/page/n17|magazine=Screen|page=258|volume=32|issue=3|title=The popular cash and culture in the postwar British cinema industry|first=Janet|last=Thumim}}</ref>

==Media releases==
VCI Entertainment released the film on [[DVD region code#1|Region 1]] DVD on 3 July 2012.<ref>{{Cite web| url = http://store.vcientertainment.com/product/woman_hater/767| title = WOMAN HATER | access-date=23 May 2012}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0042051}}
*[https://archive.org/stream/variety172-1948-10#page/n184/mode/1up Review of film] at ''Variety''
{{Terence Young}}
{{Alec Coppel}}

[[Category:1948 films]]
[[Category:1948 romantic comedy films]]
[[Category:1940s English-language films]]
[[Category:British romantic comedy films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Terence Young]]
[[Category:Films set in London]]
[[Category:Films shot in Warwickshire]]
[[Category:Films shot at Denham Film Studios]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:1940s British films]]
[[Category:Two Cities Films films]]

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