This madcap comedy depicts a rich housewife dragging her family to France to absorb culture.This madcap comedy depicts a rich housewife dragging her family to France to absorb culture.This madcap comedy depicts a rich housewife dragging her family to France to absorb culture.
Dennis Morgan
- Chuck Thompson
- (as Stanley Morner)
Fred Malatesta
- French Guard
- (scenes deleted)
Candy Candido
- Bosco
- (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
- French Waiter
- (uncredited)
André Cheron
- French Warden
- (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
- Italian Desk Clerk
- (uncredited)
George Davis
- Gendarme
- (uncredited)
Flora Finch
- Old Maid in Hall
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis film's television premiere took place in Los Angeles Tuesday 18 June 1957 on KTTV (Channel 11); it first aired in Omaha 11 September 1957 on WOW (Channel 6), in Chicago 4 October 1957 on WBBM (Channel 2), in Norfolk VA 11 October 1957 on WTAR (Channel 3), in Fresno CA 12 December 1957 on KMJ (Channel 24), in Honolulu 11 February 1958 on KHVH (Channel 13), in Philadelphia 26 February 1958 on WFIL (Channel 6), in Cincinnati 25 March 1958 on WLW-T (Channel 5), and in Spokane 9 July 1958 on KHQ (Channel 6). It finally found its way to San Francisco 20 January 1960 on KGO (Channel 7) & to New York City 19 August 1963 on WCBS (Channel 2).
- SoundtracksBurnt Fingers
(uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright
Sung by Dennis Morgan and The Three Dots
Played on piano by Betty Furness
Featured review
Dodsworth with gags.
Based on a 1930 Broadway play adapted by Anita Loos ("Gentleman Prefer Blondes") for the screen, this MGM film starts off as a delightful satire of Innocents Abroad with snappy dialogue and memorable comic performances by Alice Brady as the socially-ambitious mid-western housewife who aspires for European culture but only ends up with a trio of bohemian phonies, and Guy Kibbee, perfectly cast as her good-hearted but bumbling husband, who finally has enough of the free-loaders sponging at his rented Antibes villa. Unfortunately, the high-jinxs are pulled down by a vapid and predictable love story featuring Betty Furness and Dennis Morgan, then known as Stanley Morner. Only a year after singing "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" uncredited in The Great Ziegfeld, Morgan, groomed for stardom as MGM's answer to Paramount's Bing Crosby, looks wonderful, croons exquisitely in a tenor voice, but acts stiffly and self-consciously. Brady and Kibbee, however, manage to be both absurd and touching in comic character roles they were to repeat in many a film.
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- Burnt Fingers
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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