While on a speaking tour in Ohio, opinionated and arrogant radio personality Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) injures himself slipping on ice and becomes an unexpected houseguest for a prominent area family, the Stanleys. Whiteside proceeds to make brash proclamations and offer his unsolicited advice to the family members.
When a romance begins between Whiteside's assistant, Maggie Cutler (Bette Davis), and a local reporter, Bert Jefferson (Richard Travis), he interferes with that as well.
| Director: | William Keighley |
| Producer(s): | Jerry Wald, Jack L. Warner |
| Cast: | Reginald Gardiner, Jimmy Durante, Bette Davis, Billie Burke, Grant Mitchell, George Barbier, Mary Wickes, Richard Travis, Elisabeth Fraser, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Laura Crews |
| Writer(s): | Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein |