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A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Jerry Antes
- Adam
- (uncredited)
Tom Anthony
- Barber
- (uncredited)
Army Archerd
- Writer
- (uncredited)
Phil Arnold
- Delivery Man
- (uncredited)
Roger Bacon
- Writer
- (uncredited)
Bill Bixby
- Track Team Coach
- (uncredited)
Paul Bradley
- Barbershop Customer
- (uncredited)
Françoise Bush
- College Girl
- (uncredited)
Gloria Calomee
- Sandy
- (uncredited)
Cliff Carnell
- Athletic Instructor
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTo help out his friend Edie Adams financially after her husband Ernie Kovacs's sudden death left her debt-ridden, star/co-producer Jack Lemmon not only insisted upon hiring her for this film, but further insisted that her part be expanded considerably from the original stage play to give her more work.
- GoofsRobin comes up to the door of her apartment with a bag of groceries, which includes two upside-down bunches of celery (root end up), and a square-shaped box of eggs. Then as the camera angle switches to show her coming through the door, the two bunches of celery have suddenly switched to right side up (leafy end up), and the square box of eggs has magically turned into a rectangular shaped box.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood and the Stars: The Funny Men: Part 2 (1963)
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One big long smirk
Ben Mankiewicz noted on TCM that Jack Lemmon was not happy being assigned this film version of a semi-hit Broadway sex comedy from 1960, and you can see why. As the libidinous landlord of a California complex who rents out only to nubile young things, he's playing an absolutely awful man, and for all his comic finesse, he's charmless and irritating. In Lawrence Roman's oversexed plot (he adapted his play with director David Swift), Lemmon's Hogan mistakenly rents a beautiful one bedroom (for $75 a month; oh, to be in 1963) to undergrad Carol Lynley, who plans to share it platonically with her fiancé, Dean Jones, who had played this part on Broadway. And from there it's one long smirk, with Lynley wiggling her fanny in short-short outfits, Jones bemoaning how difficult a no-sex policy is, and Lemmon mugging and being thoroughly unpleasant. Edie Adams, as Lemmon's ex and Lynley's aunt, is a pro, and Paul Lynde, as a horny-for-young-girls (ha) gardener, and Imogene Coca, as his disapproving wife, wring what laughs they can out of repellent material. If you want to know what '60s sex comedies were like, with endless jokes on will-she-won't- she-lose-her-virginity, this is a good example, typically over lit and supplemented with a cutesy Frank DeVol score. And Lynley and Jones are charming. But given the change in morality in intervening years, it looks it was made on another planet.
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- marcslope
- Jan 26, 2015
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- Also known as
- Ein Ehebett zur Probe
- Filming locations
- 1355 N. Laurel Ave., West Hollywood, California, USA(Centaur Apartments)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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