The More the Merrier
The More the Merrier
Release: 1943-05-13
·Runtime: 104m
·★ 6.9
Comedy
Romance
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Columbia Pictures
Cast
Joel McCrea
as Joe Carter
Clyde Fillmore
as Senator Noonan
Hal Price
as Bathing Man (uncredited)
Donald Douglas
as FBI Agent Harding
Stanley Clements
as Morton Rodakiewicz
Gladys Blake
as Barmaid (uncredited)
John Ince
as Shaving Gag (uncredited)
Douglas Leavitt
as Waiter (uncredited)
Marjorie Wood
as Snippish Woman (uncredited)
Frank Sully
as FBI Agent Pike
Henry Hebert
as Committee Member (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
as Singing Man on Apartment Stairway (uncredited)
Charles Coburn
as Benjamin Dingle
Sam Ash
as Committee Member (uncredited)
Ernest Hilliard
as Senator (uncredited)
Frank LaRue
as Senator in Taxi (uncredited)
Lon Poff
as Sleeper (uncredited)
Grady Sutton
as Diner Counterman (uncredited)
Bruce Bennett
as FBI Agent Evans
Jack W. Johnston
as Night Club Guest (uncredited)
Hank Bell
as Singing Man on Apartment Stairway (uncredited)
Ruth Cherrington
as Night Club Guest (uncredited)
Kay Linaker
as Miss Allen (uncredited)
Douglas Wood
as Senator in Taxi (uncredited)
Shirley Patterson
as Girl (uncredited)
Jean Arthur
as Constance Milligan
Don Barclay
as Drunk (uncredited)
Chester Clute
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Ann Savage
as Miss Dalton (uncredited)
Mike Lally
as Man Leaving Elevator (uncredited)
Ann Doran
as Miss Bilby (uncredited)
Helen Holmes
as Dumpy Woman (uncredited)
Richard Gaines
as Charles J. Pendergast
Marshall Ruth
as Fat Statistician (uncredited)
Jean Stevens
as Dancer (uncredited)
Crew
Morris Stoloff
Music Director
Lewis R. Foster
Screenplay
Eugene Joseff
Other
George Stevens
Director, Producer
Garson Kanin
Additional Writing
Leigh Harline
Original Music Composer
Budd Boetticher
Assistant Director
Fred Guiol
Associate Producer
Sidney Cutner
Orchestrator
Ted Tetzlaff
Director of Photography