restaurant, comrades come to kidnap her. A sleeping potion meant for Chuck ends up in Tarbell's drink instead. Connie is also mistaken for Vinka in a cloakroom and taken captive. The Russians misunderstand Vinka's intentions and charge her with treason. Chuck leads a daring aerial escape, and they end up falling in love. Money does not matter as much to Vinka as it does to Connie. As she and Lockwood are leaving for America, a Russian agent runs up, offering her the $100,000 check. She declines, but Lockwood grabs it. Cast Bob Hope as Capt. Chuck Lockwood Katharine Hepburn as Capt. Vinka Kovalenko Noelle Middleton as Connie James Robertson Justice as Col. Sklarnoff Robert Helpmann as Ivan Kropotkin David Kossoff as Dubratz Alan Gifford as Col. Newt Tarbell Olaf Pooley as Maj, Osip Feodor Ganovich Nicholas Phipps as Tony Mallard Paul Carpenter as Maj. Lewis Tutte Lemkow as Sutsiyawa Sid James as Paul Alexander Gauge as Senator Howley Sandra Dorne as Tityana Richard Wattis as Lingerie Clerk Doris Goddard as Maria Production Development The original screenplay, Not for Money, was written by Ben Hecht from a story by producer Harry Saltzman. The two men formed a company called Benhar to produce the film. Hecht wrote the film specifically as a vehicle for Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn was pleased with the original script and personally selected Ralph Thomas as the director because she liked his film Doctor in the House (1954). She contacted Thomas and Doctor in the House producer Betty E. Box while they were making Doctor at Sea, and they agreed to take part. "I had no idea what dramas were to descend on us as a result of that call," Box later wrote. "We accepted the job because Miss Hepburn agreed to do it, and because we liked the Ben Hecht script," said Thomas. Box and Thomas were under contract to the Rank film organization, but were allowed to make outside films. "They [Rank] turned very sour," wrote Box. "But we stuck to our guns – we wanted to work with Hepburn, on top of which we were to be paid much larger fees than those guaranteed under our Rank deal." The film was an American-British co-production, with finance provided by MGM and Romulus Films. Bob Hope According to Box, Hepburn originally envisioned the male lead being played by Cary Grant, William Holden or James Stewart. However, casting the