Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.
Clifton Webb
as Ernest Gifford
June Allyson
as Katie Baxter
Cornel Wilde
as Bill Baxter
Lauren Bacall
as Elizabeth Burns
Fred MacMurray
as Sid Burns
Van Heflin
as Jerry Talbot
Arlene Dahl
as Carol Talbot
Elliott Reid
as Tony Andrews
Margalo Gillmore
as Mrs. Evelyn Andrews
Alan Reed
as Tomaso
David Hoffman
as Jabernowski
William H. O'Brien
as Servant
