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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Vera Caspary (story)
Valentine Davies (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
1 November 1961 (USA) more
Tagline:
He's the world's greatest authority on love... and she has a few ideas of her own!
Plot:
A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination more
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Progress Report
(From Vanity Fair. 28 September 2009, 7:48 AM, PDT)
User Comments:
Roughly what you'd expect more (16 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Bob Hope | ... | Adam J. Niles |
 | Lana Turner | ... | Rosemary Howard |
 | Janis Paige | ... | Dolores Jynson |
| Jim Hutton | ... | Larry Delavane |
| Paula Prentiss | ... | Linda Delavane |
| Don Porter | ... | Thomas W. Jynson |
| Virginia Grey | ... | Camille Quinlaw |
 | Agnes Moorehead | ... | Judge Peterson |
| Florence Sundstrom | ... | Mrs. Pickering |
| John McGiver | ... | Austin Palfrey |
| Clinton Sundberg | ... | Rodney Jones |
| Alan Hewitt | ... | Attorney Backett |
| Reta Shaw | ... | Mrs. Brown |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Roy Engel | ... | McCracken (scenes deleted) |
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Runtime:
109 min
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Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Filming Locations:
Hughes Market - 8231 Woodman Avenue, Panorama City, Los Angeles, California, USA more
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Quotes:
[after entering his house in Paradise]
Adam J. Niles:
It's charming. What do you call this style... early Disneyland?
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) more
Soundtrack:
Invitation more
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I like Bob Hope a lot better than I like Doris Day. This is a Doris-Day style 60s sex comedy, except that the central character's a man with better lines.
Unusually, Bob Hope is a pretty successful lover, but otherwise he plays the normal Bob Hope character in the normal way.
It's mostly a gently enjoyable piece of innocent fluff, played pretty well on the whole. Watch out for a lovely cameo by Agnes Moorehead as the judge.
But for 1961, this was a pretty progressive film. The strong characters are the women, and their story is of fighting the stultifying boredom of housewifery and being respected as people.
Nothing spectacular, but carried out competently. If you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you like.