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While pursuing new companions, a former married couple keep running into each other all over town.While pursuing new companions, a former married couple keep running into each other all over town.While pursuing new companions, a former married couple keep running into each other all over town.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 win & 2 nominations total
Shirlee Allard
- Secretary
- (uncredited)
Leon Alton
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
Merry Anders
- Marsha
- (uncredited)
Mylee Andreason
- Dance Teacher
- (uncredited)
Frank Arnold
- Art Teacher
- (uncredited)
Fay Baker
- Nurse Serena
- (uncredited)
Eugene Borden
- Teddy - Maitre d'
- (uncredited)
Paul Bradley
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
Sue Carlton
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Harry Cheshire
- Nina's Divorce Lawyer
- (uncredited)
Sayre Dearing
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaColumbia Pictures approached George Axelrod to produce a film version of his very popular play, "The Seven Year Itch," but the film rights were tied up as long as it was running on Broadway. He instead offered them "Phffft," an earlier play of his dealing with a similar subject.
- GoofsLate in the movie when Charlie is visiting Nina at her home, Charlie and Nina walk over to the couch. It is too dark there and when Nina begins to sit down, the crew turns on an extra light to brighten the scene.
- Quotes
Charlie Nelson: A mustache is a very important thing. That's part of the famous Charlie Nelson theory in the efficacy of face hair in dealing with the opposite sex.
Robert Tracey: [Slightly taken aback] What?
Charlie Nelson: Always remember this: dames become unpredictable when faced with a mustache. It both arouses, and angers them, because... being as it is a symbol of masculinity, they feel drawn toward it.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Lady with the Torch (1999)
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It's sort of like "The Awful Truth" as re-imagined by a '50s screenwriter with a smutty mind: Married couple divorce, try other partners, reunite. The high-school-boy-giggling-about-sex tone gets pretty heavy, but try to overlook that, because the film has so much to recommend it: New York location filming, early Kim Novak in a small part, and most of all, Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon. Was there ever a greater romantic comedy team? She's hysterically funny and amazingly touching at the same time, and he partners her perfectly. They're even sexy together -- it's not a quality you usually associate with either actor. Watch the "mambo" sequence, with their shifting feelings about each other played out in dance: a classic scene.
I'd rate these two over even Tracy and Hepburn. How sad that they made only two movies together.
I'd rate these two over even Tracy and Hepburn. How sad that they made only two movies together.
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- Eine glückliche Scheidung
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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