The More the Merrier
“The only picture with a DINGLE!”
1943•1h 44m•7.0•Released
ComedyRomance
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
Director
George Stevens
Writer
Frank Ross, Robert Russell, Lewis R. Foster, Richard Flournoy
Languages
English
Studio
Columbia Pictures
Cast
Jean Arthur
Constance Milligan
Joel McCrea
Joe Carter
Charles Coburn
Benjamin Dingle
Richard Gaines
Charles J. Pendergast
Bruce Bennett
FBI Agent Evans
Frank Sully
FBI Agent Pike
Donald Douglas
FBI Agent Harding
Clyde Fillmore
Senator Noonan
Stanley Clements
Morton Rodakiewicz
Sam Ash
Committee Member (uncredited)
Don Barclay
Drunk (uncredited)
Brandon Beach
Shaving Gag (uncredited)
Betzi Beaton
Miss Finch (uncredited)
Hank Bell
Singing Man on Apartment Stairway (uncredited)
Edward Biby
Committee Member (uncredited)
Production
Company
Columbia Pictures
Producer
George Stevens
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