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Director:
Jack Arnold
Writers:
Vera Caspary (story)
Valentine Davies (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
1 November 1961 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
He's the world's greatest authority on love... and she has a few ideas of her own!
Plot:
A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination more
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User Comments:
Typical, 60s Hope pablum, made interesting by location filming more (16 total)

Cast

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Bob Hope ... Adam J. Niles

Lana Turner ... Rosemary Howard
Janis Paige ... Dolores Jynson
Jim Hutton ... Larry Delavane
Paula Prentiss ... Linda Delavane
Don Porter ... Thomas W. Jynson
Virginia Grey ... Camille Quinlaw

Agnes Moorehead ... Judge Peterson
Florence Sundstrom ... Mrs. Pickering
John McGiver ... Austin Palfrey
Clinton Sundberg ... Rodney Jones
Alan Hewitt ... Attorney Backett
Reta Shaw ... Mrs. Brown
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Roy Engel ... McCracken (scenes deleted)
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Runtime:
109 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | West Germany:16
Filming Locations:
Hughes Market - 8231 Woodman Avenue, Panorama City, Los Angeles, California, USA more
Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
[after entering his house in Paradise]
Adam J. Niles: It's charming. What do you call this style... early Disneyland?
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) more
Soundtrack:
Alone more

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Typical, 60s Hope pablum, made interesting by location filming, 20 February 2006
Author: Ripshin from North Carolina

This flick is sixties suburbia to pastel perfection - an "early Disneyland" middle-class wet dream.

Frankly, I've never understood Bob Hope as a sex-comedy leading man, but his later films must have made money, or they wouldn't have kept churning them out. Lana Turner is coiffed to within an inch of her life, but she honestly looks OLDER than her forty years in 1961.

Watch this for the "California coral" tract homes, the fab supermarket and the atomic drive-in we all wish still existed. However, don't expect anything more than the usual, lame Hope shtick.

Of course, Agnes Moorehead is priceless in her cameo......if only she had played a larger role.

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