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5.7/10   54 votes
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Release Date:
4 November 1963 (Sweden) more
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Tagline:
You Can't Tell Them Apart Without a Scorecard!
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
Better than i remember it .... more (3 total)

Cast

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Janet Leigh ... Bertie Austin

Van Johnson ... Bill Austin

Shelley Winters ... Fran Cabrell
Martha Hyer ... Lucinda Ford
Ray Walston ... Wylie Driberg
Jeremy Slate ... Gar Aldrich
Claire Wilcox ... Julie Austin
Lee Patrick ... Mrs. Swanson
Dick Wessel ... Mr. Liberti
Dave Willock ... Dr. Leon Partridge DDS
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Additional Details

Runtime:
Canada:104 min | USA:103 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Shirley MacLaine got into legal battle with Paramount when she refused to play part ultimately given to Janet Leigh. more

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Better than i remember it ...., 10 October 2007
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Author: snoozer1 from Sydney, Australia

This one is a forgotten gem. I watched it again after some 35 years and it struck me that all the ingredients for a good film are on display. Firstly, a stellar cast that are all uniformly excellent. A directer who, tho predominately from a TV background, innately understands the material .. and lastly, a wonderfully taught script by Jay Presson Allen who would go on to pen such films as Hitchcock's "Marnie" and "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie".

If you're a fan of the genre, in this case the early 60's 'sex comedy', you could do worse than to seek this out. It's a cut above the Doris Day/Rock Hudson films of the period.

I don't know who manages the back-catalogue for Paramount, but this could certainly do with a DVD release given the popularity of the afore-mentioned Day/Hudson films and the buying power of the baby boomers. Certainly, it has more 'bite' in the screenplay with some dialogue that obviously went under the censor's radar at the time.

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