HotToastyRag You're going to need some serious suspension of disbelief to watch this one. I mean, who would say "no" to David Niven? Joan Caufield plays a best-selling authoress, whose claim to fame is a book that warns unsuspecting women about the greatest horror known as Man. Men are filthy, nasty beasts, and women would do well to always say "no"! David Niven works for a popular magazine, and he's assigned to do a featurette on Joan. He hates her book and her message, and as soon as they meet, they're at each other's throats-and not in a good way. But, since it is David Niven, she just might be charmed long enough to listen to what he has to say.Yes, it's pretty silly, and enormously dated, but if you like silly and dated, you won't go wrong by renting The Lady Says No on a rainy afternoon. David Niven is absolutely adorable and charming, and since I love him anyway, it's easy to root for him in this funny 50s romp. My advice: watch the opening credits. If you start laughing during the song, you're in the right mindset to enjoy the rest of the movie. I find it hilarious.

mark.waltz A Life Magazine photographer (David Niven) takes on a beautiful but frigid non-fiction author (Joan Caulfield) whose latest book, "The Lady Says No", is obviously anti-male, anti-sex, anti-romance, and definitely anti-marriage obviously anti-researched. She might as well become a member of the now defunct religious sector, the Shakers, as she goes about humiliating Niven in public at a women's meeting by showing the ladies (most of them well beyond the age of romance) how to deal with a masher. That offensive sequence, handled in the most juvenile manner, is followed by Caulfield obviously learning the error of her ways, basically becoming a hypocrite by chasing Niven and trying to reconcile a couple who have separated because the wife is now an obsessed follower of her ideals, having earlier poo-poo'd the whole thing when Niven picked her up as a hitch-hiker.Ultimately, this extremely unfunny comedy with no wit, little intelligence and zero point, is a waste of dead trees, both with the script and the book utilized on screen. "The Andy Griffith Show's" Frances Bavier (Aunt Bea) has a rare major film role as Caulfield's aunt, a woman whose own husband (James Robertson Justice) ran out on her years ago and has presumably returned just to cash in on the profits. Character actor Henry Jones ("The Bad Seed's" LeRoy and TV's "Phyllis", among many other credits) has a major part as the Army Sergeant whose wife left him. If it wasn't for the cast, this would rate a total bomb. A dream sequence in the movie only stresses the obnoxiousness of the film.

MartinHafer Wow...this movie was so bad that I couldn't even finish it! That's amazing, as I have an ALMOST limitless ability to watch crappy films. I think the reasons I couldn't stick with this one were because it totally wasted a good cast, it tried WAY too hard to be cute and the film was also a sexist mess. So, despite having said I'd watch almost anything with David Niven in it, I'll put this with a few of his films that are simply unwatchable messes--such as "Casino Royale" (1967) and the final Pink Panther film in which he appeared (he was so sick that his lines had to be dubbed by another actor and Peter Sellers wasn't even in the film except for scenes with stock footage).The film begins with a photographer (Niven) from a magazine is on his way to interview a lady who wrote a book called "The Lady Says No". When he meets her (Joan Caulfield) and her aunt (Frances Bavier) he assumes the older lady wrote the book. After all, he reasons, only an old biddy would write such a dumb book about men and women and relationships!!! He even goes on to SAY this--proving he's a sexist jerk. As for the rest of the film I could stand watching, you see Niven repeatedly act like a boorish sexist--and he seems half asleep in the film. Perhaps he was just too embarrassed by the craptitude of the script. Caulfield seemed to take it a bit more seriously, but even her attempts to make this film watchable were in vain. Overall, it's clichéd, badly written and annoying...and those are only its GOOD points. I can EASILY understand why the studio allowed this movie to pass into the public domain!!

Keith Kjornes Short on laughs, sometimes even embarrassing to watch, it makes me wonder what this film would have been like WITHOUT David Niven. His performance is so wooden and he seems so bored with the whole thing. Joan Caulfield, not a well known name, does a really good job, actually, playing the ying and yang of her character.Niven seems TOTALLY OUT OF PLACE, a part someone like Tony Randall or Jack Lemmon could have banged out of the park (maybe it was a bit before their time...) Not a bad premise, has been stolen and used repeatedly in movie history, but it seems listless and lifeless when Niven is on screen. Oh, well.