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Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
José Ocasio
- Room Service Waiter
- (as Jose Ocasio)
Frank Albanese
- Parking Lot Attendant
- (uncredited)
Raina Barrett
- Girl in Lobby
- (uncredited)
Jack Beers
- Man in Hotel
- (uncredited)
James Bryson
- Doorman
- (uncredited)
Jordan Charney
- Jesse's Aide
- (uncredited)
Gordon B. Clarke
- Hotel Manager
- (uncredited)
Alan DeWitt
- Man in Lobby
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe stage version of "Plaza Suite" by Neil Simon originally had four acts instead of three. The act that was cut was entitled "Visitor from Toledo", and was intended to open the play. Simon once described the act to the Newark Evening News as being "...about a man who came to New York from out of town and lost his luggage. He got there in the middle of a transit strike. It was snowing. So after he had checked into the Plaza [Hotel] he had this monologue. We put Plaza Suite into rehearsal, and after about the fifth day [director] Mike Nichols said, 'We just have too much show here. If we include that monologue, the curtain will be coming down at midnight.'" Simon later re-worked and expanded that story into the film The Out of Towners (1970).
- GoofsIn Act 3, Norma Hubley's hat gets soaking wet when she sticks her head out of the window. In the next shot it is dry again.
- Quotes
Norma Hubley: Promise me you won't get hysterical.
Roy Hubley: Why? What'd you do?
Norma Hubley: Just promise me.
Roy Hubley: Alright, I promise. what'd you do?
Norma Hubley: I broke my diamond ring.
Roy Hubley: Your good diamond ring?
Norma Hubley: How many do I have?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Paramount Presents (1974)
- SoundtracksTangerine
Written by Johnny Mercer and Victor Schertzinger
Featured review
Dialogue heaven...
The old cliche applies to this brilliantly acted and wonderfully scripted film; they don't make them like this any more. The comedy, the intensity, the emotion is all in the dialogue and in the performances of the leading ladies and of course, that of Walter Matthau as the three lead male characters.
The dialogue crackles from start to finish. I don't think a script like this would ever get the green light in Hollywood today. Too much talk, not enough drama, nothing that really happens. In many ways it's more like a French film.
Walter Matthau is from that wonderful generation of fifties and sixties comic actors who could be over-the-top without overracting (Peter Sellers, Phil Silvers, Tony Hancock etc.). He manages to do this whilst never losing his grip on his characters and always managing to surprise with his subtle facial expressions and the comic timing of his movement.
Great performances and a great film.
The dialogue crackles from start to finish. I don't think a script like this would ever get the green light in Hollywood today. Too much talk, not enough drama, nothing that really happens. In many ways it's more like a French film.
Walter Matthau is from that wonderful generation of fifties and sixties comic actors who could be over-the-top without overracting (Peter Sellers, Phil Silvers, Tony Hancock etc.). He manages to do this whilst never losing his grip on his characters and always managing to surprise with his subtle facial expressions and the comic timing of his movement.
Great performances and a great film.
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- Aug 19, 2002
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,669,403
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