Looking for Love

1964
Approved
1 Std. 25 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,7/10

449

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George Hamilton, Jim Hutton, Johnny Carson, Joby Baker, Connie Francis, Yvette Mimieux, Susan Oliver, Paula Prentiss, Danny Thomas, and Jesse White in Looking for Love (1964)

After being in Hollywood for a month with lots of compliments but no offers, girl next door Libby Caruso decides to give up on having a singing career and focus on what she believes is her destiny: to be a wife, hopefully to a doctor. To nab a husband, she believes she has to get a job where many eligible bachelors would notice her, that job despite she having no skills besides singing. Away from her job as a Girl Friday at a brokerage firm, Libby, upon seeing him, believes she is destined to marry Paul Davis, who works at the product development company where Libby's best friend and roommate Jan McNair works, and who believes he is God's gift to the world, if only anyone would notice. Jan knows that Libby isn't Paul's type, he who didn't even notice her. However, who may be Libby's type, but who she in turn didn't really notice is Cuz Rickover, part-time supermarket stock-boy and part-time bass player among some other part-time activities. Ultimately, Paul believes he can help Libby and in turn help himself in developing a product for market that Libby created to make her 9-to-5 life easier. But as Paul helps Libby with the product with Libby in turn hoping to get Paul to ask her to marry him, Libby gets an opportunity to showcase her singing to a wide audience. So as Libby's 9-to-5 life, her pursuit of a husband, the product development and the singing seem to be moving up and down simultaneously, Libby has to decide where her focus lies. The answers as to what she should do with her life may just fall into place by others giving those areas a little push.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuGirl quits singing dream to pursue husband. Works at brokerage hoping to marry coworker. Coworker uses her idea to develop product. She gets singing opportunity, must choose between career a... Alles lesenGirl quits singing dream to pursue husband. Works at brokerage hoping to marry coworker. Coworker uses her idea to develop product. She gets singing opportunity, must choose between career and marriage.Girl quits singing dream to pursue husband. Works at brokerage hoping to marry coworker. Coworker uses her idea to develop product. She gets singing opportunity, must choose between career and marriage.

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5,7/10

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Notorious as the first feature film in which Johnny Carson ever appeared (albeit, playing himself). Carson often joked that this film was so awful that its makers specifically requested that it be transferred to flammable nitrate film stock.

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Mr. McBride: Do you know who this is? This is the owner and president of this outfit, Horace McBride!
Libby Caruso: [At the PBX] Oh? Do you know who this is?
Mr. McBride: No.
Libby Caruso: [Disconnecting him] Good!

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Edited into Bone (1972)

Soundtracks
Let's Have a Party
Written by Hank Hunter and Stan Vincent
Performed by Connie Francis

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Moronic Connie Francis vehicle

This film plays like a cross between a 40s MGM musical and a 60s sitcom, combining the worst of both worlds. And, not being a Francis fan, even the many musical interludes don't pacify me. Seeing that the director and scriptwriter were from TV, I shouldn't be surprised at the result. I guess MGM didn't think poor Connie deserved first-rate attention. But, then again, Elvis suffered the same fate.

Connie's character is an idiot, and Jim Hutton's a jack#@@. We are supposed to believe that "Libby" pines after "Paul," a man who blatantly shows a hatred towards women? There is no chemistry between either of the two couples, in any combination.

Paula Prentiss must have established a friendship with Francis after making "Where the Boys Are" four years earlier; otherwise, why would she have agreed to a 30 second cameo, during which she speaks one short sentence, and is promptly bopped on the head?

And, please, the Lady Valet? Perhaps the writer didn't realize that such a "contraption," in some form or another, has existed for hundreds of years. One doubts the lame version presented in the film could ever secure its creator a slot on The Tonight Show (but it is great to see Johnny).

The movie does display a reasonable budget, as many of the sets have a more- than-sitcom feel. I wonder how many times they had to shoot that grocery store scene? However, notice that after the girls become rich, and live in a HUGE mansion, they still share a bedroom? (It's not surprising that scriptwriter Flippen did some work on "The Brady Bunch.")

If you plan on sampling one of the four 60s Francis flicks, stick with the first, "Where the Boys Are."