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- Release date: October 23, 1943 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036172/
- Director: George Stevens http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036172/
- Writer: Robert Russell http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800097004...
- Editor: Otto Meyer http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800097004...
- Production company: Columbia Pictures http://www.allmovie.com/work/the-more-th...
- Studio: Columbia Pictures http://www.allmovie.com/work/the-more-th...
- Running time: 104 minutes http://www.allmovie.com/work/the-more-th...
- MPAA rating: Not rated http://www.allmovie.com/work/the-more-th...
- Genre: Comedy, Romance http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036172/
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The More the Merrier is a romance comedy written by Robert Russell and directed by George Stevens. It was released on October 23, 1943. The movie is set during World War II and stars Charles Coburn, Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea as roommates in a small Washington DC apartment. Charles Coburn won an Oscar Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 1944 Academy Awards.
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Reviews
" Stevens moves things along a lot more briskly than is usual for him."—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-more-the-merrier/Film?oid=1056528"The More the Merrier (1943) is a delightful romantic comedy of the homefront at wartime, exploring the problems of housing-bed-man shortages."&mdashTim Dirks, Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films http://www.filmsite.org/more.html
Plot Synopsis
The More the Merrier tells the story of three roommates in a tiny Washington, DC apartment during World War II. Benjamin, an older gentleman played by Charles Coburn, is living with Joe and Connie, played by Joel McCrea and Jean Arthur. Connie is engaged to Charles, played by Richard Gaines, but that doesn't stop Benjamin in trying and get Joe and Connie together. After Benjamin reads Connie's diary to Joe, she insists that both men leave the apartment, but she allows them to stay when Benajamin takes full responsibility for the incident. Later Joe is questioned by the police, believed to be a Japanese spy. Connie was taken in for questioning as well and upon being released, gets married to Joe.Cast
- Charles Coburn as Benjamin Dingle
- Joel McCrea as Joe Carter
- Richard Gaines as Charles J. Pendergast
- Jean Arthur as Connie Milligan
- Bruce Bennett as FBI Agent Evans
- Frank Sully as FBI Agent Pike
- Ann Savage as Miss Dalton
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The More the Merrier (1943)
Directed by George Stevens. With Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn. During the WW2 housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the olde...imdb.com
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"The More the Merrier" (TmTm) Arts Radio, CIUT 89.5 FM ...
I feel as comfortable at ImagineNative as I do at any other film festival. No one looks at me and wonders why I'm there. For one thing, I could be Native. (I'm not. Just an average Jamaican with the usual African, Scottish, Irish mix...tmtmshow.blogspot.com -
Happyotter: THE MORE THE MERRIER (1943)
THE MORE THE MERRIER (1943). It's hard to pick my favorite Jean Arthur film but I think this might be it...that's not counting SHANE of course. During WW2 Washington, DC had a housing shortage so Jean Arthur feels it's...happyotter666.blogspot.com -
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings: Tonight's Movie: Together Again (1944)
One has the sense when watching this film that both Boyer and his character are having a very good time. The soundtrack not too subtly reminds audiences of Coburn's Oscar-winning role in 1943's THE MORE THE MERRIER by playing... (November 06, 2009)laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com -
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This was originally seen as a sequel to Arthur and Coburn's THE MORE THE MERRIER (1943), which is underlined when Coburn's "theme music" from the earlier film is subtly played in the background during a couple of his sc...laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com
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