The lady says no - 1951

My goodness, this was a boring load of stupid and crappy nonsense. Never watching that again, it had nothing going for it, really nothing. Every scene brings it lower and lower, until the stupid obvious ending. 
It’s about a girl, Dorinda Hatch (Joan Caulfield), who grew up with her aunt Alice, seeing her sad and tormented because of her husband Matt who came and went as he pleased, even for months or for years apparently. With her head full of that she now writes a book called The lady says no, where she states that women are better off without men. It’s not a feminist book, and it’s definitely not a feminist movie. She writes that no man is worth any pain or torment, never talking about love, as if it didn’t really existed. Of course as she meets photographer William Shelby (David Niven) she falls for him immediately, although she has a hard time coming to terms with what she feels - still she runs after him in an embarrassing way, I’d even say she makes a fool of herself running after a man that she barely knows.
How the movie goes about it? He comes in all conceited, making her angry by stating that the ideas in the book can’t be hers. She refuses to pose for his story about her, making a ridiculous face for his camera. At a lecture, she’s asked by a woman what did she mean when she wrote that no woman should let a man get away with whistling at her, and what could said woman do about it, and Dorinda’s reply is that she would make him so angry at her that he’d regret having whistled at her... really? you walk on the streets, a stranger whistles at you and you make him furious at you? And she thought that would be a good thing?? She was looking for trouble, that’s not good advice for girls.
On his part, smug Shelby says that “women love to be whistled at”, which is very annoying! 
Next thing, he wants to publish her ridiculous picture on the cover of a national magazine, so she goes to him asking for it to be destroyed. He blackmails her into kissing him in exchange for the picture! She’s forced to accept, and then he treats her badly. :-/ She asks him to try again and then she slugs him! Both are things not to do. 
She goes home to sleep, ‘reads’ his book (mostly pictures) and dreams of him being surrounded by slave girls while she captures him and dances around him in a tiny costume. She wakes up and forces her uncle to take her to where she knows he’ll be; the uncle leaves her there, she has a strong drink, quarrels with Midge for Shelby’s attention, hits on Goldie’s husband Potsie to prove to herself she can be a femme-fatal, then tries to pay Midge to leave Shelby to her, convincing her with an exchange of dresses. She dances with him and then she intentionally causes a big fight that involves most men in there :-/ 
He drives her home and they talk: she says she has no feelings for him, he makes a boring speech of what should be 1952-passionate-talking, although I’ve heard much better speeches in other 50s or 40s movies. He leaves again, she enters the house but after a few seconds she runs out to her car and chases him, only to find that he’s gone. She finds Midge to ask about Sbelby, and when she learns that with her words and her book she caused a break-up between Goldie and Potsie she makes it her mission to bring them together again. To do so she causes a lot of trouble but then she has them face to face, she tells Goldie to ignore her “stupid book”, “full of lies and silly nonsense”, and they get back together. 
She disappears without another word and goes home to pack her bags, angry at her uncle and aunt, saying she’s tired of being their punching balls, that she want to go away to be alone. 
What happens now? The uncle says ‘it’s all my fault’ and the aunt says “no, don’t worry about me” !!!
and they say I love you and hug!!
I mean, what??? :-//
Dorinda goes away to find herself; on the road she meets Shelby who stops her car. She throws away her book, they kiss and she says she’ll write a new book called “27 ways to say yes” ... 
My goodness I feel sick. This movie gets worse with every scene! I'll even say that Niven in this movie is about as charming as a fancy ashtray. 

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