Details

Release year: 1961

Storyline

A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.

Top credits

Directors

Delbert Mann

Writers

Cast

Rock Hudson — Jerry Webster
Doris Day — Carol Templeton
Tony Randall — Peter 'Pete' Ramsey
Edie Adams — Rebel Davis

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• The original ending had Carol and Jerry getting drunk on VIP and checking into a hotel. Doris Day insisted the concluding events be rewritten, having Carol and Jerry get married in their drunken state before going to bed.

• All close-up shots of Doris Day are in soft focus.

• About a year and a half after completing this film, its twice Oscar-nominated costume designer Irene committed suicide by jumping off the roof of Hollywood's Knickerbocker Hotel. Doris Day, in her 1975 autobiography, suggested the suicide of Irene may have been motivated by the designer's secret, unrequited love for Gary Cooper and Cooper's then recent death from cancer.