6.9
“The only picture with a DINGLE!”
The More the Merrier (1943)
May 13, 19431h 44mEN
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93 votes
Overview
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
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George StevensWriters
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English
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Columbia Pictures
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7.0I’d have liked a bit more from Charles Coburn in this, but he still features engagingly enough as the man who facilitates the meeting of his unexpectedly acquired landlady “Connie” (Jean Arthur) to the man he has sub-let one half of his bedroom too. That man is “Joe” (Joel McCrea) and his arrival comes after a little failed cloak and dagger activity from “Dingle” who was only staying for a few days himself, and who had no authority whatsoever to take the man’s six bucks to sleep in her apartment. Scene set, what now ensues is hardly rocket science, but Arthur is on good form as the inevitable…
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