Welcome to the world on which most Bollywood movies have ever since based their storylines on. Starring the Gorgeous Rock Hudson (I was fascinated to find out he was gay, he was honestly too pretty and too funny and too witty to be straight!) and Doris Day (If you've seen 'Down With Love', I feel like Renee Zellweger has based her character entirely on DD's performance in this 1961 movie.)
Zis is your typical movie in technicolour with pretty men and a decent amount of cheap sexual jokes. Okay, so thats not ALL the story is about, its about Carol Templeton(Day), an idealistic advertising executive at loggerheads with Jerry Webster(Rock Hudson) of a rival firm who steals all the accounts by wooing the clients with booze and girls.
Jerry pretends to advertise a product 'Vip' to quieten a witness whom Carol has called to testify against him in front of the advertising council. Unfortunately his boss puts it on air. Jerry then hires a Nobel prize winner to create a product for him. Carol gets a wind of this new product and rushes over to the scientists place, only to mistake Jerry for him. She wines and dines him, trying to make him give her the account.
At the crux of their romance, Jerry spends a night at her apartment, and obviously wants to sleep with her, and uses his 'inferiority complex' tactic to get her into bed. Unfortunately just before she goes into his room, her boss telephones her and tells her she's got the wrong man. She's obviously hopping mad, so on the pretext of taking him to a secluded beach where they can both do a little more than swim, she abandons him on the roadside with only his underwear. He hitch-hikes his way back, finds out that his scientist has created the product which turns out to be a mint which injects your bloodstream with as much alcohol as a triple martini, and goes over to the advertising council (Carol has issued a case against him). They all get drunk on mints and
Carol and Jerry get married. They finally sleep together (this I found funny because after she awakens, he tries to pacify her by saying 'but honey, we're married, its all ok!'). She is angry again, and leaves and gets her marriage annulled. Jerry moves out of town, nine months later gets a call from Carol's secretary - she's having a baby, and they kiss and make up.
Funny facts
1. When she's supposed to be pregnant, her tummy just has like a pillow on it. It just looks like she's a bit on the heavier side, not actually pregnant.
2. Carol's secretary is, unless I'm mistaken, a younger Alice (from the Brady Bunch.).
3. Did you know that strip clubs existed in 1961? I mean, I'm aware that prostitution is the oldest occupation, but strip clubs I thought were fairly recent..
4. I hate Carol's clothes...but nice shoes
5. There are quite a few sexist ideas in the movie.For example, when Carol and Jerry wake up hungover and married, they begin to fight. Two maidservants outside 'tsk-tsk' her and say 'how sad! some women just can't handle the thought of marriage!'. I found that very annoying. But then, it WAS the 1960's.
6.It was Nominated for best screenplay - and it really was good. There were a lot of ideas intermingled, and when not handled carefully that sort of thing can be a complete mess. This wasn't a complete mess.
7. I haven't mentioned Tony Randall. He's quite good too.
8. I had to put this picture in too. Look at her hat!! Isn't it just so ROTFL??!!! Pompoms, I tell you! on a Lilac hat!! Gahahaha!! And the 'beach' is a blue wall!! Lol.. I love old movies!!
Funny timepass. Better than 'Come September'.
