The More the Merrier
The only picture with a DINGLE!
1943 | 104m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | George Stevens |
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| Writer: | Robert Russell, Frank Ross, Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | May 13, 1943 |
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| Director: | George Stevens |
| Writer: | Robert Russell, Frank Ross, Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster |
| Genres: | Comedy, Romance |
| Keywords | washington dc, usa, coffee, binoculars, housing shortage, classified ad |
| Production Companies | Columbia Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Gladys Blake | Barmaid (uncredited) |
| Lulu Mae Bohrman | Secretary (uncredited) |
| Sally Cairns | Bathing Girl (uncredited) |
| Jack Carr | Taxi Driver (uncredited) |
| Ruth Cherrington | Night Club Guest (uncredited) |
| Chester Clute | Hotel Clerk (uncredited) |
| Lew Davis | Man Entering Elevator (uncredited) |
| Ann Doran | Miss Bilby (uncredited) |
| Eddie Foster | Taxi Driver (uncredited) |
| Jack Gardner | Hotel Clerk (uncredited) |
| Sugar Geise | Dancer (uncredited) |
| Hal Gerard | Second Statistician (uncredited) |
| Nancy Gray | Miss Chasen (uncredited) |
| Harrison Greene | Apartment Seeker (uncredited) |
| June Harris | Girl (uncredited) |
| Henry Hebert | Committee Member (uncredited) |
| Robert F. Hill | Headwaiter (uncredited) |
| Ernest Hilliard | Senator (uncredited) |
| Helen Holmes | Dumpy Woman (uncredited) |
| Russell Huestis | Night Club Guest (uncredited) |
| John Ince | Shaving Gag (uncredited) |
| Fred Johnson | Juggler (uncredited) |
| Jack W. Johnston | Night Club Guest (uncredited) |
| Edna Mae Jones | Chorus Girl (uncredited) |
| Mike Lally | Man Leaving Elevator (uncredited) |
| Pat Lane | Waiter (uncredited) |
| Frank LaRue | Senator in Taxi (uncredited) |
| Douglas Leavitt | Waiter (uncredited) |
| Kay Linaker | Miss Allen (uncredited) |
| Eric Mayne | Singing Man on Apartment Stairway (uncredited) |
| Betty McMahon | Miss Geeskin (uncredited) |
| Shirley Patterson | Girl (uncredited) |
| Lon Poff | Sleeper (uncredited) |
| Hal Price | Bathing Man (uncredited) |
| Bertha Priestley | Fat Girl (uncredited) |
| Fred Rapport | Shaving Gag (uncredited) |
| Henry Roquemore | Washington Sun Reporter (uncredited) |
| Marshall Ruth | Fat Statistician (uncredited) |
| Ann Savage | Miss Dalton (uncredited) |
| Byron Shores | Air Corps Maj. Denton (uncredited) |
| Jean Stevens | Dancer (uncredited) |
| Grady Sutton | Diner Counterman (uncredited) |
| Diedra Vale | Fat Girl (uncredited) |
| David Ward | Waiter (uncredited) |
| Douglas Wood | Senator in Taxi (uncredited) |
| Marjorie Wood | Snippish Woman (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Robert Russell | Screenplay, Story |
| Frank Ross | Screenplay, Story |
| Richard Flournoy | Screenplay |
| Lionel Banks | Art Direction |
| Rudolph Sternad | Art Direction |
| Norman Deming | Assistant Director |
| Bud Brill | Assistant Director |
| Otto Meyer | Editor |
| Edward Eliscu | Songs |
| Henry Myers | Songs |
| Jay Gorney | Songs |
| George Stevens | Director |
| Lewis R. Foster | Screenplay |
| Ted Tetzlaff | Director of Photography |
| Leigh Harline | Original Music Composer |
| Budd Boetticher | Assistant Director |
| Morris Stoloff | Music Director |
| Garson Kanin | Additional Writing |
| Fay Babcock | Set Decoration |
| Lodge Cunningham | Sound Engineer |
| Eugene Joseff | Other |
| Sidney Cutner | Orchestrator |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| George Stevens | Producer |
| Fred Guiol | Associate Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | Best Actress | Jean Arthur | Won |
Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 6 |
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| 2025 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 2 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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