A small-town beauty queen is hired, as a joke, as a "birthday present" for a magazine publisher.A small-town beauty queen is hired, as a joke, as a "birthday present" for a magazine publisher.A small-town beauty queen is hired, as a joke, as a "birthday present" for a magazine publisher.
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- TriviaIn this movie there is a disdainful reference to Ingrid Bergman as "that woman". This is a joke lost on the present generation, but in 1974 it would have made much more sense. This is a reference to the scandal when Bergman left her husband and daughter to live with Italian director Roberto Rossellini, and give birth to a child out of wedlock.
- GoofsThe film's conclusion is set in Kenosha, Wisconsin, but mountains are clearly seen in the distant background.
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Michael Green: I have this phobia about getting to be 40. I don't know. When you're in your twenties, everybody says "boy genius!" And then when you're in your thirties, "Ah, yes! Young man on the way up!" You get to be forty... zip. Nothin'. No more adjectives. Just a man.
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Cute little movie
Karen Valentine shows up as Richard Long's 40th birthday present. He publishes a magazine called "The Man Who has Everything," but personally he is in a funk, and doesn't really have much. He doesn't need the stripper to come do her act and then leave. He needs Karen to come and stay. The next to the last film in Long's long career, he would die of heart failure before 1974 was out but it's a sweet one he goes out on. Karen Valentine is as cute as a button so it's not surprising Long can't resist, even if she does come with a dog and plants. It is a cute little movie, good for lifting spirits in a time when spirits really need lifting.
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- Jun 27, 2020
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By what name was The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped (1974) officially released in Canada in English?
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