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There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)

TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses... See full summary »

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Tony Britton ...
Andrew
Ruth Trouncer ...
Gilly, his wife
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Paola, the au pair (as Francoise Pascal)
Nicky Henson ...
Jimmy
Geraldine Sherman ...
Caroline
Tom Marshall ...
Bryan, his friend
John Comer ...
John, the porter
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His Wife
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Lady Heather
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Julia Halforde-Smythe
Raf De La Torre ...
M. Le Guestier
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Michel Le Guestier (as Constantin De Goguel)
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TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions. At first, her candor and cynicism put him off, but after he witnesses her breaking up with her rocker boyfriend, he's attracted to her and invites her on an idyllic two-week trip to France. Slowly, she pokes holes in his artifice and he comes to care for her. When they return to London, with the press thinking they're married, they come to a cross-roads: go back to their old lives, marry each other, or invent a new, open relationship. Is Robert up to it? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

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A saucy delectable romantic comedy for the amorous gourmet. See more »

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Comedy | Romance

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15 December 1970 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Caiu Uma Rapariga na Minha Sopa  »

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1.85 : 1
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Trivia

Britt Ekland and Brigitte Bardot were possibles for Marion. See more »

Goofs

In the bedroom scene when Goldie Hawn (Marion) throws a bucket of water over Nicky Henson (Jimmy) and Gabrielle Drake (Julia Halforde-Smythe), Gabrielle Drake (Julia Halforde-Smythe) from 43:08 to 44:31 shows her breasts and her butt. Essentially naked as she leaves the bedroom, however when she opens the door into the next bedroom and then walks through the doorway, she is suddenly wearing white panties. See more »

Quotes

Jimmy: Are you him?
Andrew: Well, I'm certainly not her.
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Connections

Referenced in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: Episode #4.3 (1970) See more »

Soundtracks

Arabella Cinderella
Music by Mike d'Abo (as Mike D'Abo)
Lyrics by Mike d'Abo (as Mike D'Abo) & Nicky Chinn (as Nicky Chinn)
Performed by Mike d'Abo
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A gem of a first hour, a mistaken shambles of a last half-hour.

"My GOD but you're lovely."

This is surely one of Sellers' most memorable characters. This guy HAS to have been a major influence on Austin Powers: he's an aging playboy, with hairy back and bad teeth, who never imagines that he's anything but irresistible to women. Goldie Hawn is the woman who won't give him what he wants when he wants it.

The first hour is pure gold, some of the greatest comedy i've ever seen. Then it strangely begins to meander. Really badly. With the extended wine tasting journey, involving many pointless shots of Frenchmen drinking wine at what seems like a real wine tasting ceremony, and later on the pointless shots of scenery, very out of place in this story. I was thinking what terrific characters they were, and what a terrific comedy set-up we had here

  • but at the point where it starts to wonder, you realise that they'd only


thought up these funny characters - but hadn't got as far as what to do with them. Thus, they also had no idea what the resolution, if any, should be.

They seem to have figured that everything would work itself out once they started shooting - well, it didn't. The last half-hour is an absolute mess. I would have enjoyed it much more as a 60 minute movie, thankyou very much.

As it is, we have a clumsy "resolution" scene that needed about seven re-writes, and a rather meandering, almost unnecessary last half-hour, peppered with a few good scenes (Sellers carrying Hawn over his shoulder in the lift), which unfortunately spoils what might have been one of the funniest movies i've ever seen.

6/10. The first hour is an absolute gem - i'd still recommend you see it for that.


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