Directed by:
Gene KellyCinematography:
Robert J. BronnerCast:
Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Gig Young, Gia Scala, Elisabeth Fraser, Elizabeth Wilson, Vikki Dougan, Doodles Weaver, Kenner G. Kemp, Jeffrey Sayre, Sam Harris (more)Plots(1)
A happily married couple has everything...except a baby. Isolde (Doris Day) is determined to get one any way possible, so she's registered herself and her husband, Augie (Richard Widmark), with the most reputable adoption agency in town, Rock-a-Bye. They seem the perfect candidates--a happy, secure couple. But that's before their neighbor, Dick (Gig Young), plants a seed in Augie's head about Dick's own philandering ways, and Augie finds himself tempted to stray from his normal faithfulness. When Rock-a-Bye sends a social worker out to investigate the couple and their neighbors--who are Augie and Isolde's references--the mixed signals, misunderstandings, and farcical situations turn a near-tragedy into a madcap comedy. Day, Widmark (in a rare comic performance), and Young are eminently likable in this Gene Kelly-directed romp. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Doris Day
USA
Best movies:
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Storm Warning (1951)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Richard Widmark
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Night and the City (1950)
Gig Young
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Rear Window (1954)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Gia Scala
UK
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Elisabeth Fraser
USA
Best movies:
The Graduate (1967)
A Patch of Blue (1965)
Seconds (1966)
Elizabeth Wilson
USA
Best movies:
The Graduate (1967)
A Child Is Waiting (1963)
Notorious (1946)
Vikki Dougan
USA
Best movies:
Hotel (1967)
Doodles Weaver
USA
Best movies:
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Double Wedding (1937)
The Birds (1963)
Kenner G. Kemp
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Limelight (1952)
Jeffrey Sayre
USA
Best movies:
Bon Voyage! (1962)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
Sam Harris
Australia
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Donald Kerr
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Country (1958)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Robert B. Williams
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Killing (1956)
Charles Wagenheim
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Sid Melton
USA
Best movies:
White Heat (1949)
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Franklyn Farnum
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Cosmo Sardo
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
North by Northwest (1959)
Howard Negley
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
North by Northwest (1959)
Notorious (1946)
Monty O'Grady
USA
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Steve Carruthers
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)