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Release year: 1958

Storyline

On a stormy night, young woman asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss and take her to the train station. After her rescuer suggests that she stop at his place to get out of her wet clothes, she dashes from his car. The door she knocks on for help is the home of a retired actor and there she spends the rest of the night. He makes no passes and next morning she discovers the young man who drove her from party is his next door neighbor. The two men compete for her affections. Older man's zany live-in housekeeper and a seagull she has rescued provide comic relief.

Top credits

Directors

Blake Edwards

Writers

Cast

Debbie Reynolds — Janet Blake
Curd Jürgens — Preston Mitchell
John Saxon — Bill Tremaine
Alexis Smith — Nita Hollaway

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Did you know

• The stage version made a star of June Lockhart in the role played by Debbie Reynolds on screen. A later tour of the play, put into place before the film version, also contributed to the rise of Grace Kelly. Neither Lockhart nor Kelly were considered for the film, as Reynolds had a virtual lock on roles of this sort by 1956.

• One of the film's running motifs is Curd Jürgens' lower back going out every time he attempts to assert himself in a masculine vein. In fact, though his temples were grayed for the role, Jurgens was only 43 years old at the time the film was made.

• Based on the play "For Love or Money," which opened on Broadway on November 4, 1947 at Henry Miller's Theatre, where it ran for 263 performances.