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Originaltitel: The Grass Is Greener

1960
Approved
1 Std. 44 Min.

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Romantic Comedy Screwball Comedy Comedy Drama Romance

Victor und Hilary machen Führungen in ihrem englischen Herrenhaus. Ein US-amerikanischer Ölmagnat "stößt" während einer Tour auf Hilary und verzaubert sich in ihr Herz. Währenddessen verfolg... Alles lesenVictor und Hilary machen Führungen in ihrem englischen Herrenhaus. Ein US-amerikanischer Ölmagnat "stößt" während einer Tour auf Hilary und verzaubert sich in ihr Herz. Währenddessen verfolgt Hattie Victor.Victor und Hilary machen Führungen in ihrem englischen Herrenhaus. Ein US-amerikanischer Ölmagnat "stößt" während einer Tour auf Hilary und verzaubert sich in ihr Herz. Währenddessen verfolgt Hattie Victor.

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- 4 Nominierungen insgesamt

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Cary Grant

Victor Rhyall

Deborah Kerr

Hilary Rhyall

Robert Mitchum

Charles Delacro

Jean Simmons

Hattie Durant

Moray Watson

Trevor Sellers

Joan Benham

Hairdresser's Receptionist
(Nicht genannt)

Aileen Lewis

Lady on Country House Guided Tour
(Nicht genannt)

Leonard Llewellyn

Audience Member
(Nicht genannt)

Elisabeth Orion

Fair-Haired Woman
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Terry Sartain

Audience Member
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Alecia St Leger

Audience Member
(Nicht genannt)

Emile Stemmler

Waiter with Card
(Nicht genannt)

Gwen Watford

Hairdresser's Receptionist
(Nicht genannt)

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It originally was intended by director Stanley Donen that Cary Grant would play the part of "Delacro", the American tourist, whilst Rex Harrison and his real-life wife Kay Kendall were cast as "Victor Rhyall" and "Hattie", respectively. But Kendall died soon after completing an earlier Donen film, Noch einmal mit Gefühl (1960), and Harrison dropped out of the film because of this. Grant agreed to play Victor instead of Delacro, and both Rock Hudson and Charlton Heston were approached about playing the American character. Both refused, and Robert Mitchum was cast quite late in the proceedings, making no fuss at all about taking third-billing. Grant often claimed this had "saved the film" and praised his performance highly.

Patzer
When Victor and Charles play billiards, they use straight-rail billiard balls (two white, one red) on a table with pockets (on which 9, 10, or 15 balls, plus a cue ball, are used).

Zitate
Victor Rhyall: Sellers, have you seen my Bible?
Trevor Sellers: I'm afraid I've got it. I wanted to look something up.
Victor Rhyall: First you borrow my Times, now you pinch my Bible. That's democracy running amok!
Trevor Sellers: I'm extremely sorry, my lord. I'll put it back beside your bed.
Victor Rhyall: Anyway, you should have a Bible of your own!
Trevor Sellers: Well, the one you're using is mine, my lord.

Crazy Credits
Babies, some of them naked, on a lawn, are shown as if they were the cast and crew. For example, as the camera crew's names are shown, the babies are seen trying to work a camera; the "editor" is a baby tugging on a film strip, and so on.

Verbindungen
Featured in Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988)

Soundtracks
The Stately Homes Of England
(uncredited)
Written by Noël Coward

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6/10

Almost too sophisticated for its own good

This is one of the films Stanley Donen directed during his long sojourn in England. His previous one with Cary Grant, "Indiscreet," also starred Ingrid Bergman, and the two of them repeated their impeccable chemistry from "Notorious" ten years earlier in a very romantic and yet sophisticated comedy. "The Grass Is Greener" is, if anything, more sophisticated, almost stultifyingly so. It's obviously based on a stage play, fitted out with a handful of cinematic tricks that stick out like sore thumbs.

This cast could do no wrong, as far as I'm concerned, and they just about manage to make it work. Robert Mitchum is probably miscast, but he doesn't let it show, and his scenes with Deborah Kerr (the two of them made many films together and enjoyed one another's company) work beautifully. Cary Grant is impeccable, as always, although I can't help thinking that this really is Rex Harrison territory. And Jean Simmons is delightful - she really is a fairly underrated actress. Moray Watson also shines as the butler.

One question: why didn't the doctor every show up? (You have to watch the movie to the end to find out what I mean.)