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A House Is Not a Home (1964)
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November 1964 (Austria)
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No One Knew Her Business Better Than Polly Adler!
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Based on Polly Adler's best-selling autobiography about her life in the Roaring Twenties as a legendary Madam...
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Nominated for Oscar.
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Trashy, misogynistic Grade B filming of "Madam" Polly Adler's memoirs
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Shelley Winters | ... | Polly Adler |
 | Robert Taylor | ... | Frank Costigan |
 | Cesar Romero | ... | Lucky Luciano |
 | Ralph Taeger | ... | Casey Booth |
| Kaye Ballard | ... | Sidonia |
 | Broderick Crawford | ... | Harrigan |
| Mickey Shaughnessy | ... | Police Sergeant Riordan |
 | Lisa Seagram | ... | Madge |
| Meri Welles | ... | Lorraine |
| Jesse White | ... | Rafferty |
| Connie Gilchrist | ... | Hattie Miller |
| Constance Dane | ... | Laura |
| Allyson Ames | ... | Gwen |
| Lewis Charles | ... | Angelo |
| Steve Peck | ... | Vince |
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98 min
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Although Raquel Welch and Edy Williams both received billing as call girls and appeared in some publicity stills, it is impossible to spot either of them in the finished film.
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House is Not A Home
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This is a pretty bad film. The acting and direction are non-existent. Robert Taylor seems terminally depressed that he has to appear in such drivel. Cameos by Broderick Crawford and Caesar Romero are forgettable. Shelley Winters would seem perfect casting for this saga of a NY "Madam" in the twenties and thirties and she does try to breathe life into it but all around her is SOOOO BADDDD, she soon succumbs. Edith Head earned one of her 35 Oscar noms for the Costume Design, but though the film is set in the 1920s, there is no attempt to recreate period costumes. What the ladies wear looks awfully 1964. Go figure. The design taken on its own terms is varied and attractive so I won't quibble. The performance by Meri Wells as Lorraine is excruciatingly bad. About all one has to console oneself with is Winters doing her damndest to take it all seriously and hunk Ralph Taeger (who appeared in only half a dozen films). The film is terribly misogynistic, treats the women as helpless victims of man's lust and the men are all creeps. Don't go out of your way to see this one.