There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)

Director:

Roy Boulting

Writers:

Terence Frisby (screenplay)
Terence Frisby (play)

Release Date:

15 December 1970 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

A saucy delectable romantic comedy for the amorous gourmet.

Plot:

TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one...

Plot Keywords:

Celebrity | Gourmet | Van | Panties | London England

Awards:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Peter Sellers	...	Robert Danvers
Goldie Hawn	...	Marion
Tony Britton	...	Andrew
Nicky Henson	...	Jimmy
Diana Dors	...	John's Wife
Judy Campbell	...	Lady Heather
John Comer	...	John
Gabrielle Drake	...	Julia Halforde-Smythe
Nicola Pagett	...	Claire the Bride
Geraldine Sherman	...	Caroline
Thorley Walters	...	Manager of Carlton Hotel
Ruth Trouncer	...	Gilly
Françoise Pascal	...	Paola
Tom Marshall	...	Bryan
Raf De La Torre	...	Monsieur Le Guestier

Runtime:

95 min | Argentina:92 min | USA:96 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:12 (2004) | UK:15 (1988) | UK:X (1970) | Iceland:L | Argentina:18 | Australia:M | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | USA:R

Filming Locations:

France

Company:

Charter Film Productions

Trivia:

Adapted by Terence Frisby from his own play. The Broadway production of "There's a Girl in My Soup" opened on Oct. 18, 1967 at the Music Box Theatre and ran for 322 performances. Gig Young and Barbara Ferris were in the original cast.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Marion (Goldie Hawn) wakes up the first morning in Robert's (Peter Sellers) London apartment she uses the telephone to try to call her ex-boyfriend. She dials a 7 digit phone number (USA) instead of an 8 digit number (UK).

Quotes:

Marion: What are you, a mortician or something? This is the kind of music they play in funeral parlors.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Indie Sex: Censored (2007) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Miss Me in the Morning

Gratuitous Nude Scene For Goldie... This Must Be The '70s!

THERE'S A GIRL IN MY SOUP (3 outta 5 stars) This movie has always had a bad reputation and I could never figure out why. Sure, Peter Sellers has been in much better movies than this... but he's been in lots worse, too. He plays the smarmy, self-absorbed star of a TV gourmet show who enjoys the swinging bachelor life, even as he hits his mid-40s. He meets up with Goldie Hawn, a hip, sexually-liberated young gal of less-than-20 and the sparks, as they say, fly. There are some really funny lines but a lot of missed comedic opportunities as well. To this day I still wonder why there is no big payoff to the wine-tasting scene... after all the time spent trying to teach Goldie that one is supposed to "spit" and not "swallow" I wonder why she doesn't wind up spitting up during a fancy dinner scene. This may not be one of Sellers' best but Goldie Hawn does a fine job... breaking free of the one-dimensional blonde ditz character that she was known for at the time. (She even gets a totally gratuitous nude scene... wow, this must be the '70s!)