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A sparkling and effervescing piece of entertainment.
Variety Staff, Variety
The More the Merrier
The only picture with a DINGLE!
1943 · 1h 44m · Approved
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
George Stevens
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The More the Merrier
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.
Director and cast
- George Stevens Director
- Jean Arthur as Constance Milligan
- Joel McCrea as Joe Carter
- Charles Coburn as Benjamin Dingle
- Richard Gaines as Charles J. Pendergast
- Bruce Bennett as FBI Agent Evans
- Frank Sully as FBI Agent Pike
- Donald Douglas as FBI Agent Harding
- Clyde Fillmore as Senator Noonan
- Stanley Clements as Morton Rodakiewicz
- Sam Ash as Committee Member (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Fresh
As warm and refreshing a ray of sunshine as we've had in a very late Spring.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Stevens moves things along a lot more briskly than is usual for him.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Despite a belated drift towards sentimentality, this remains a refreshingly intimate movie.
Time Out
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