Copyright 1959. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture. New York opening at the Radio City Music Hall: 21 May 1959. U.K. release: 18 October 1959. Australian release: 10 September 1959. 8,404 feet; 98 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Small-town girl arrives in Manhattan in search of a job and a husband.
COMMENT: Although some critics hailed this super-predictable yarn as a bright and witty sex comedy, it is mostly a bore, enlivened only by the energetic playing of Shirley MacLaine (and, in lesser roles, Jim Backus and Gig Young). Charles Walters' relentlessly pedestrian direction doesn't help Wells' plodding screenplay either. And Walters does so little with CinemaScope, one wonders why the studio bothered with the process at all. (Well, I suppose it just had to be in 'Scope to attract an audience).
SYNOPSIS: Small-town girl arrives in Manhattan in search of a job and a husband.
COMMENT: Although some critics hailed this super-predictable yarn as a bright and witty sex comedy, it is mostly a bore, enlivened only by the energetic playing of Shirley MacLaine (and, in lesser roles, Jim Backus and Gig Young). Charles Walters' relentlessly pedestrian direction doesn't help Wells' plodding screenplay either. And Walters does so little with CinemaScope, one wonders why the studio bothered with the process at all. (Well, I suppose it just had to be in 'Scope to attract an audience).