Tuesday 8 March 2022

Houseboat (1958 Melville Shavelson & co-scr)

Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino (Dirty Harry, The Enforcer), Eduardo Cianelli, Murray Hamilton; and Mimi Gibson, Paul Petersen and Charles Herbert as the kids. Written by Shavelson and Jack Rose (who also produced), photographed by Ray June, music by Charles Duning.

Grant and Loren make a marvellous pairing (Grant was apparently madly in love with her, but she had just married Carlo Ponti) and the story isn't too icky.


Shavelson has been a staff writer at Paramount since the forties, this one of his early director jobs. He did the later Jack Lemmon comedy The War Between Men and Women. He and Rose also wrote another Cary Grant / kids comedy, Room For One More in 1951.

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