1h 52min | Comedy, Family, Romance | 31 March 1960 | Color, WS
Director: Charles Walters
Stars: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn, Patsy Kelly, Jack Weston.
Robert Sidney ... choreographer (uncredited)
5 songs in the Soundtracks, 3 by DD, 2 no performers. I heard 1 of the no-performers at a party, being played on the piano.
This is just fun. The 4 small boys (eldest in 5th grade, 2 in 2nd, 1 toddler in a cage), the big sheepdog, the tiny apartment, the enormous house in the country, JP, "I shall go on yelling "Tripe," whenever tripe is served", and on and on. Yes, one of the boys eats daisies off camera.
Although DD is "just a housewife", this makes it look like quite a career, even with day-help PK. And when DN, as predicted, gets too big for his britches, RH uses DD to deliver an appropriate revenge. At one point DN says DD is much more than a housewife, and DD responds that every housewife is. I wonder if audiences cheered at that one.
The script makes DN out as the one changing for the negative, and DD as one of his casualties. When she tries to apologize for her participation, my feminism was not offended; it's a logical thing to do for the relationship, so long as a reciprocal apology is received, and change occurs.
Watched just because I wanted to.
Euterpe, distr. MGM, dir. Walters; 8
