Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their descriptio... Read allFour elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their description of the "girl" attracts a psychopath.Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their description of the "girl" attracts a psychopath.
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This cast is even more formidable than the Snoop Sisters - instead of two elderly ladies, this has four. And what a group! Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick, Sylvia Sidney, and Myrna Loy. Poor Vincent Edwards doesn't have a chance against them.
The bored ladies decide to fill out a computer dating form, using an imaginary woman, of course, and wind up with a very eager Edwards.
Computer dating has come a long way, but alas, it's still pretty easy to attract a character like Edwards. The four women are adorable and it's worth it just to have a chance to watch them in action. Hayes and Natwick went on to play elderly detectives in "The Snoop Sisters."
Watching this movie last night, I realized how very dated it has become, and even the sound quality was very bad - plus the color looked cheap and faded. There ARE some really funny one-liners and the four old gals work beautifully together but the film as a whole dates badly.
As a whole, this movie is a 1971 curio, based on the Doris Miles Disney novel of the same name. If you can accept it's out-moded notions, sit back and have fun!
Helen Hayes, Myrna Loy, Sylvia Sidney, and Mildred Natwick decide one fine day to create a fictitious character for a computer dating service. They sit by and watch the fun as the local psycho Vince Edwards selects this fictional woman as his dream date. Unfortunately real life call girl Barbara Davis falls into this identity and is killed for her trouble.
I didn't find anything particularly amusing here. These women and their silly games caused a homicide.
Four stalwarts of the silver screen. You've all done better work.
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- TriviaMyrna Loy wrote in her biography that this film was memorable for working with her co-stars: Helen Hayes, Sylvia Sidney and Mildred Natwick. "We all got along so well and laughed so much. It is a misconception that actresses don't work well together. We were old enough and wise enough to relax and play with each other rather than try to upstage each other, so the show was tremendously easy and pure fun in the making.'
- GoofsMal reads his letter out loud while typing it. He says, "I got your name from my list from Scientific Associates..."
When Evelyn reads Mal's letter aloud, she reads "I have your name on my list from Scientific Associates..."
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Shelby Saunders: My husband hates computers. He said the Democrats invented them to destroy the Republican Party.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 24th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1972)
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