Desk Set

Desk Set
Original cinema poster
Directed byWalter Lang
Screenplay byPhoebe Ephron
Henry Ephron
Based onDesk Set
1955 play
by William Marchant
Produced byHenry Ephron
StarringSpencer Tracy
Katharine Hepburn
CinematographyLeon Shamroy
Edited byRobert Simpson
Music byCyril J. Mockridge
Distributed by20th Century-Fox
Release date
  • May 1, 1957 (1957-05-01) (US)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,865,000[1]
Box office$1.7 million (US rentals)[2]

Desk Set (released as His Other Woman in the UK) is a 1957 American romantic comedy film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Directed by Walter Lang, the picture's screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, adapted from the 1955 play of the same name by William Marchant.

  1. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1
  2. ^ "Top Grosses of 1957", Variety, 8 January 1958: 30