This Happy Feeling

Veteran actor Preston "Mitch" Mitchell (Curd Jürgens) refuses to come out of retirement for a Broadway play as the father of the new teen idol. At a party, Janet Blake (Debbie Reynolds) needs to escape from her drunk lecherous boss. Bill Tremaine (John Saxon) gives her a ride. When he starts making suggestions, she makes a run for it in the pouring rain. She makes it to his neighbor Mitch and is forced to spend the night. People mistakenly assumes some hanky panky and Mitch hires her as his secretary.

The starting premise has some interesting aspects and some icky aspects. It would be written a little differently today. I can see Janet as the butt of the joke back in the day. This is one of those May to December romances. I rarely like them reaching fruition and this one is no exception. Also, Mitch is rather stiff and the chemistry is mostly coming from Reynolds. Saxon is too angry and isn't much better either. She has all the abilities to sell this, but I'm not eager to buy.