Film

The More the Merrier

1943 · 1h 44m · Comedy · Romance

The only picture with a DINGLE!

IMDb

7.6

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.

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)

• George StevensDirector · Producer
• Robert RussellScreenplay · Story
• Frank RossScreenplay · Story
• Richard FlournoyScreenplay
• Lewis R. FosterScreenplay
• Ted TetzlaffDirector of Photography
• Leigh HarlineOriginal Music Composer
• Otto MeyerEditor

Release date

May 13, 1943

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 44m

Genres

Comedy, Romance

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