The More the Merrier

  • Comedy
  • Romance
5/13/1943
104

The only picture with a DINGLE!

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.

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  • Geronimo1967

    Id have liked a bit more from Charles Coburn in this, but he still features engagingly enough as the man who facilitates the meeting of his unexpectedly acquired landlady Connie (Jean Arthur) to the man he has sub-let one half of his bedroom too. That man is Joe (Joel McCrea) and his arrival comes after a little failed cloak and dagger activity from Dingle who was only staying for a few days himself, and who had no authority whatsoever to take the mans six bucks to sleep in her apartment. Scene set, what now ensues is hardly rocket science, but Arthur is on good form as the inevitable courtship plays out despite her already being engaged to the steady Pendergast (Richard Gaines) and there being a secret sub-plot that could end up embroiling...

    August 21, 2025

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