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She Couldn't Say No ()


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A wealthy heiress returns to a small Arkansas town to furtively reward the townsfolk who helped to save her life when she was a young girl.

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Robert Sellers
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Corby Lane
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Odie Chalmers
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Ed Meeker
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Joe Wheelen
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Judge Hobart
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Digger
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Sheriff
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Miss McMurtry
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Ed Gruman
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Sally Watson
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Elmer Wooley
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
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Big Guy (uncredited)
Mary Bayless ...
Minor Role (uncredited)
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Out-of-Towner (uncredited)
Barry Brooks ...
Clerk (uncredited)
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Minor Role (uncredited)
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Man at Filling Station (uncredited)
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Reverend Weaver (uncredited)
Clyde Courtright ...
Minor Role (uncredited)
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Mr. Plummer (uncredited)
Russell Custer ...
Out-of-Towner (uncredited)
Coleman Francis ...
Minor Role (uncredited)
Marilyn Gladstone ...
Wife in Car (uncredited)
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Dick Jordan (uncredited)
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John Bentley (uncredited)
Joy Hallward ...
Minor Role (uncredited)
Keith Herrington ...
T.V. Announcer (uncredited)
Marjorie Holliday ...
Emmy Lou (uncredited)
Bob Hopkins ...
T.V. Announcer (uncredited)
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Mrs. Gruman (uncredited)
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Out-of-Towner (uncredited)
Edith Leslie ...
Nora (uncredited)
Teddy Mangean ...
Minor Role (uncredited)
Walter Merrill ...
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Rex Moore ...
Out-of-Towner (uncredited)
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Diaper Delivery Man (uncredited)
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Amos (uncredited)
Ruth Packard ...
Woman in Trailer (uncredited)
Maggie Quintana ...
The Jordan Baby (uncredited)
Robert Robinson ...
Out-of-Towner (uncredited)
Sammy Shack ...
Minor Role (uncredited)
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Minor Role (uncredited)
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Minor Role (uncredited)
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Minor Role (uncredited)
Maxie Thrower ...
Delivery Man (uncredited)
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Man in Trailer (uncredited)
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Mrs. Holbert (uncredited)
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Harley Burger (uncredited)
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Barbara Jordan (uncredited)

Directed by

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Lloyd Bacon

Written by

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D.D. Beauchamp ... (screen play) (as D. D. Beauchamp) &
William Bowers ... (screen play) and
Richard Flournoy ... (screen play)
 
D.D. Beauchamp ... (story)

Produced by

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Robert Sparks ... producer

Music by

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Roy Webb

Cinematography by

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Harry J. Wild ... director of photography

Editing by

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George Amy

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Carroll Clark
Albert S. D'Agostino

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Harley Miller
Darrell Silvera

Costume Design by

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Michael Woulfe ... (gowns)

Makeup Department

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Mel Berns ... makeup artist
Larry Germain ... hair stylist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Fred Fleck ... assistant director (as Fred A. Fleck)

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Clem Portman ... sound
Francis M. Sarver ... sound (as Francis Sarver)

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C. Bakaleinikoff ... musical director / music supervisor (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Howard Hughes ... presenter
Crew believed to be complete

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Plot Summary

Recently arrived back in New York City after several years in Britain, twenty-one year old oil heiress Corby Lane wants to repay what she considers her debt to the residents of Progress, AR - stable population of about two hundred - for them saving her life. When Corby was two and she and her father were passing through town, Robert Sellers, the town's doctor, took up a collection to pay for her bills for emergency medical treatment in St. Louis, that treatment which her father at the time could not afford. Her plan is simply to hand over money to any person she believes would have contributed to that fund, and of which Dr. Sellers probably kept a record. This plan is against the advice of John Bentley, the President of the Lane Oil Corporation, as being misguided, her still misguided Plan B to buy whatever the residents need or want without she telling them that she is their benefactor or of her true identity. In arriving in Progress, she finds that Dr. Sellers cannot help her as being deceased, but that his son, Robert Sellers, Jr., has taken over as the town doctor. Her attempts to repay that debt in the ways she wants has unexpected negative consequences at every turn. Guessing what is going on and concurring with Bentley, Dr. Sellers nonetheless starts to fall for Corby, which, as the town's only real eligible bachelor - a status he fosters - may not sit well with those who are aiming to be Mrs. Dr. Sellers. In his open disdain for what she is doing and has done with her money in fundamentally changing the town and its residents, Corby has to decide if she can admit to herself that she too is falling for Dr. Sellers in return. Written by Huggo

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Also Known As
  • A Likely Story (United States)
  • Beautiful but Dangerous (United States)
  • She Had to Say Yes (United States)
  • Murder (United States)
  • Enough for Happiness (United States)
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  • 89 min
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Trivia Arthur Hunnicutt, who plays Odie, really was a native of Arkansas. See more »
Goofs Although the RKO prop department did a good job with the layout and style of each state's license plates that Corby sees parked by the general store, all were flat-painted and not embossed as they should have been. And there should be no period after "ILL" on the Illinois plate. See more »
Movie Connections Referenced in Ann-Margret/Robert Mitchum/Tom Dreesen/Joseph Sorrentino (1978). See more »
Quotes Odie Chalmers: [in just being deputized] As sheriff of this county, I arrest you on three counts: count o' you parked your car in the bus space, count of assault and battery, and count of you ain't no account.
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