It was adapted by George Axelrod (who also co-wroteThe Seven Year Itch (1955)that also starred Marilyn Monroe) from the 1955 Broadway hit play by William Inge.The two were ultimately dismissed as "dolts."With a storm brewing, they spent he night in a woodman""s hut, where they were forced to sleep together in the stable.BackgroundThe Talk of the Town(1942) is a classic romantic comedy/drama of the 1940s from producer/director George Stevens and Columbia Pictures.The wind blew the dying leaves from trees.The driver was drunken son Kyle Hadley (Robert Stack) returning from a wrong-side-of-town bar to his white-columned mansion estate.