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Come Blow Your Horn

  • 19631963
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  • 1h 52m
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Frank Sinatra in Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
ComedyMusical
After leaving his parents' home, young Buddy Baker goes to live with his womanizing older brother in a posh Manhattan apartment where he learns how to be a partying playboy.After leaving his parents' home, young Buddy Baker goes to live with his womanizing older brother in a posh Manhattan apartment where he learns how to be a partying playboy.After leaving his parents' home, young Buddy Baker goes to live with his womanizing older brother in a posh Manhattan apartment where he learns how to be a partying playboy.
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    • Bud Yorkin
    • Neil Simon(play)
    • Norman Lear(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Frank Sinatra
    • Lee J. Cobb
    • Molly Picon
    • Bud Yorkin
    • Neil Simon(play)
    • Norman Lear(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Frank Sinatra
    • Lee J. Cobb
    • Molly Picon
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 27User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar

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    "Come Blow Your Horn" Frank Sinatra on the set 1963  © 1978 Ted Allan
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    Frank Sinatra during the making of "Come Blow Your Horn"
    Frank Sinatra during the making of "Come Blow Your Horn"
    Frank Sinatra during the making of "Come Blow Your Horn"

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    Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra
    • Alan Baker
    Lee J. Cobb
    Lee J. Cobb
    • Harry Baker
    Molly Picon
    Molly Picon
    • Sophie Baker
    Barbara Rush
    Barbara Rush
    • Connie
    Jill St. John
    Jill St. John
    • Peggy Dawn
    Dan Blocker
    Dan Blocker
    • Mr. Eckman
    Phyllis McGuire
    Phyllis McGuire
    • Mrs. Eckman
    Tony Bill
    Tony Bill
    • Buddy Baker
    Phil Arnold
    Phil Arnold
    • Clothing Store Tailor
    • (uncredited)
    R.G. Brown
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Mary Grace Canfield
    Mary Grace Canfield
    • Mildred
    • (uncredited)
    Warren Cathcart
    • Willie
    • (uncredited)
    James Cavanaugh
    • Shoe Salesman
    • (uncredited)
    George Davis
    George Davis
    • Hansom Cab Driver
    • (uncredited)
    Vinnie De Carlo
    • Maxie
    • (uncredited)
    June Erickson
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Carole Evern
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Herbie Faye
    Herbie Faye
    • Waiter
    • (uncredited)
      • Bud Yorkin
      • Neil Simon(play)
      • Norman Lear(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Lee J. Cobb (born 1911), who played Frank Sinatra's father, was actually only four years older than Sinatra (born 1915). Tony Bill, who played Sinatra's younger brother, was 25 years younger than Sinatra. Molly Picon, who played Cobb's wife, was 13 years older than Cobb.
    • Goofs
      In the vicinity of the main room in Alan's apartment, there are at least three telephone extensions on the same line: the red, the blue and the antique telephones. Whenever someone telephones to the apartment, sometimes only one telephone ring can be heard, sometimes two, but never all three.
    • Quotes

      Harry R. Baker: [when his wife complains about his habit of entering and tossing the evening newspaper on the dining room table] It's clean, I had it boiled.

    • Connections
      Featured in Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963)
    • Soundtracks
      Come Blow Your Horn
      Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

      Music by Jimmy Van Heusen (as James Van Heusen)

      Performed by Frank Sinatra (uncredited)

      [Alan sings the song during his and Buddy's clothes shopping excursion]

    User reviews27

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    9/10
    "I Tell You Chum, It's Time To Come Blow Your Horn"
    This Neil Simon comedy, debuted on Broadway two years earlier, minus the song and a few characters and starred Hal March, Warren Berlinger, Lou Jacobi, and Pert Kelton. It had a respectable run for about a year and Frank Sinatra must have recognized a property tailor made for him when he saw it.

    The eternal problem with filming plays is how to get them out of the theatrical confines and use the scope the movie camera offers. Primarily this is done with a Sinatra song with the movie title where he lectures kid brother Tony Bill that life ain't a dress rehearsal. Sammy Cahn, who put more words in Frank Sinatra's mouth than any other lyricist, put some of his best work into play here. It's a great Sinatra song and maybe it's inclusion qualifies Come Blow Your Horn to be a musical.

    Lee J. Cobb and Molly Picon are the quintessential Jewish parents and they are grand. Cobb was a very underrated actor and an unhappy man because of his experience with the House Un-American Activities Committee. Sinatra purportedly befriended him and helped him over a few rough patches.

    Molly Picon brought about 50 years of experience to her part as Frankie's mom. She was fresh from a Broadway triumph in Milk and Honey. She started out as a child in the Yiddish Theatre and was only now breaking out into a wider audience. She has a very funny scene alone in Sinatra's bachelor pad, trying to answer several phones looking for a pencil to take a message with disastrous consequences.

    The women here are an eyeful, Phyllis McGuire, Barbara Rush, and Jill St. John and Sinatra's involved with all of them. I won't tell you which one he ends up with, but I think you'd figure it out. I think most of Frankie's fans would settle for any one of them.

    Life imitates art and the real life Sinatra unlike his character Alan Baker didn't really settle down until fourth wife Barbara Marx married him.

    There's a lot of similarities with the earlier Sinatra comedy, The Tender Trap. It's ground gone over before, but it's good topsoil.

    A Quintessential Sinatra film, a must for fans of the Chairman of the Board.
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    • bkoganbing
    • Feb 12, 2005

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    • Release date
      • June 5, 1963 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Madison Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Essex Productions
      • Paramount Pictures
      • Tandem Productions
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    • 1 hour 52 minutes
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