The Iron Petticoat is a 1956 Cold War comedy film starring Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn and directed by Ralph Thomas (chosen by Hepburn as she enjoyed his "Doctor" series). The original story Not for Money was written by Ben Hecht with Hepburn in mind to play Captain Vinka Kovelenko, a Russian aviatrix who lands in West Germany.
After her defection she is quickly converted to capitalism after sampling life in the West in the company of Major Ch...
more
The Iron Petticoat is a 1956 Cold War comedy film starring Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn and directed by Ralph Thomas (chosen by Hepburn as she enjoyed his "Doctor" series). The original story Not for Money was written by Ben Hecht with Hepburn in mind to play Captain Vinka Kovelenko, a Russian aviatrix who lands in West Germany.
After her defection she is quickly converted to capitalism after sampling life in the West in the company of Major Chuck Lockwood (Hope). There are subplots with Lockwood trying to marry Connie (Noelle Middleton), a member of the British upper class, and Communist agents trying to get Kovelenko to come back to the U.S.S.R. (see List of Cold War pilot defections)
The main story owes a lot to Greta Garbo's Ninotchka and Josef Von Sternberg's Jet Pilot with Janet Leigh as the Russian pilot and John Wayne as the U.S. Air Force officer. Jet Pilot was filmed in 1950 but not released until 1957.
When Hope had concerns that Hecht's script was unfinished, he turned...
less
