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The Thrill of It All (1963) 6.8
A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life. Director:Norman Jewison |
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Cast
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Dr. Gerald Boyer
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Mrs. Fraleigh
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Gardiner Fraleigh
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Old Tom Fraleigh
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Olivia
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Mike Palmer
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Maggie Boyer
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Andy Boyer
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Mrs. Goethe
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Paul Hartman | ... |
Dr. Taylor
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Stokely
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Robert Gallagher | ... |
Van Camp
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The Happy Soap Company is owned and managed by the Fraleigh family. Although he is more of a company figurehead than an active participant in the company's day-to-day business, anything that family patriarch Tom Fraleigh wants for the company he usually gets. What he wants is Beverly Boyer - the wife of his daughter-in-law's obstetrician, Dr. Gerald Boyer - to appear as the company spokesperson when Beverly, who he meets at a small dinner party, mentions a personal and true story about how Happy Soap saved her life. She is to appear in a live commercial spot during a Happy Soap sponsored television show telling her story just as she told Tom. Despite Beverly's performance going poorly in her own mind, Tom loved it and how refreshing and honest Beverly came across to the viewer. So Tom signs her to a one year, $80,000 contract to continue doing the same. This move is questioned by Happy Soap's own managers and its advertising company. But it is questioned even more by Gerald, who ... Written by Huggo
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
17 July 1963 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Le piment de la vie See more »Filming Locations:
Colonial Street, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USACompany Credits
Production Co:
Universal International Pictures (UI), Ross Hunter Productions Inc., Arwin Productions See more »
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Color (Eastmancolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Music by Arnold Schwarzwald
Lyrics by Frederick Herbert
Vocals by The Johnny Mann Singers
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Trivia
Producer Ross Hunter unsuccessfully tried to reunite Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy to play the roles eventually played by Arlene Francis and Edward Andrews. Before Francis was cast, Kitty Carlisle was also mentioned for the part. See more »Goofs
When Doris is drying her toddler daughter off near the tub, the child switches between being toweled down, wrapped snugly in the towel, and back again in a matter of seconds. See more »Crazy Credits
The credit for David Webb's Jewels is followed with Cameos by Carl Reiner (a cameo being a form of jewelry, but in this case substituting as Reiner's credit for his series of appearances within the film) See more »Soundtracks
"The Thrill Of It All"Music by Arnold Schwarzwald
Lyrics by Frederick Herbert
Vocals by The Johnny Mann Singers
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Before the women's movement and the advances in reproductive assistance, there was The Thrill of it All, a feel-good movie for its day (and its Day, namely Doris Day). Miss Day as a typical doctor's wife, and Miss Arlene Francis as a 40-plus woman giving birth for the first time, may have portended of changes to come in society.
If the movie were remade today, it would not be surprising that Dr. Gerald Boyer would be aware of in vitro fertilization and other reproductive technology. He would even get used to his wife being a working wife.
Anyway, it is good to see a film that was released in the early part of 1963, unaware of the tragedy the world would face before the year ended.