A Woman of Distinction is a 1950 American screwball romantic comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Rosalind Russell, Ray Milland and Edmund Gwenn.

Susan Manning Middlecott is dean of a New England school called Benton College and it is her whole life, apart from living with dad Mark and raising an adopted daughter, Louisa.

A British astronomy professor she has never met, Alec Stevenson, mentions to a lecture-tour publicist named Teddy Evans that he has a locket belonging to Susan that he wants to deliver to her.

For publicity's sake, Teddy invents a story that Alec and Susan are involved in a romance.

Susan's dad takes a shine to Alec and wants to encourage her to find time for a love life.