Bedside Manner (film)

Bedside Manner is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Andrew L. Stone and starring John Carroll, Ruth Hussey, Charles Ruggles and Ann Rutherford.

It is based on a 1944 Saturday Evening Post story of the same name by Robert Carson and was distributed by United Artists.

Plastic surgeon Dr. Hedy Fredericks picks up three hitchhiking Marines, Tommy, Dick, and Harry (who all have Smith as their last name), while driving home to Chicago.

Hedy runs into a man she believes is her childhood friend Smedley Hoover during her short visit, but it is in fact a test pilot named Morgan Hale.

Furious, Hedy starts treating Morgan with a series of very unpleasant and rough sine cures, trying to make him expose himself as a fraud.