The Devil and Miss Jones is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Sam Wood and starring Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, and Charles Coburn.

Its plot follows a department store tycoon who goes undercover in one of his Manhattan shops to ferret union organizers, but instead becomes involved in the employees' personal lives.

Cantankerous tycoon John P. Merrick goes undercover as a shoe clerk at "Neely's", one of his New York department stores, to identify agitators trying to form a union, after seeing a newspaper picture of his employees hanging him in effigy.

There he befriends fellow clerk Mary Jones and her recently fired boyfriend Joe O'Brien, a labor union organizer.

During a beach day at Coney Island with his coworkers, John begins to see a different side of Joe after he helps him avoid an arrest at a local police station by reciting the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence.

The remaining trio then travel home via subway, where John drops a card showing that his undercover persona was working for Merrick.

John decides to finally reveal his identity and has Mary, Elizabeth, and Joe meet him and his staff to discuss terms.

[8] Filming had to stop for nine days so that Robert Cummings could shoot extra scenes at MGM in Free and Easy in late January.

It was also adapted twice on The Screen Guild Theater, first on June 7, 1943, with Laraine Day, Charles Coburn and George Murphy, again on August 12, 1946, with Van Johnson and Donna Reed.

It was also adapted on the October 23, 1946, broadcast of Academy Award Theater, starring Charles Coburn[14] and Virginia Mayo.