Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a ... Read allTwo aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.
- Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 1 win & 6 nominations total
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- TriviaFirst mainstream Hollywood film to use the word "virgin," after a battle with the official and unofficial censors. Also the first use of "seduce" and "mistress" (as a sexual partner). The movie was banned from theaters in Boston for using these words.
- GoofsAfter Donald (William Holden) goes out to meet Cynthia (Dawn Adams) Patty (Maggie McNamra) clears the meal things away and collapses the table but she never saw how it was put up.
- Quotes
Donald Gresham: Believe it or not, I am a full-fledged architect. Build you anything from a cathedral to a bomb shelter.
Patty O'Neill: How much would a cathedral cost these days? A small one.
- Alternate versionsThe filmed was made in two versions, a US version with Holden, McNamara and Niven in the leads, and a German version, The Girl on the Roof (1953), with Krueger, Matz, and Heesters in the corresponding roles. Krueger and Matz have a brief cameo as tourists in the US version, and Holden and McNamara make the same cameo in the German version.
- ConnectionsAlternate-language version of The Girl on the Roof (1953)
- SoundtracksThe Moon Is Blue
Music by Herschel Burke Gilbert
Lyrics by Sylvia Fine
Presentation by The Sauter Finegan Band (as The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra)
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- Jul 10, 2012
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- Budget
- $400,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1