Looking for Love

1964
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1h 25min

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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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Añade un argumento en tu idiomaGirl 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... Leer todoGirl 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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Curiosidades
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.

Citas
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!

Conexiones
Edited into Secuestrada (1972)

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

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4/10

Rags to Riches to the Ring

Another movie that seems like play like an Elvis movie, sans Elvis, this time featuring the effervescent Connie Francis. Oddly enough, despite the dumb script and sort of weird presentation of the star as a second banana, one gets a vague hint than in an alternate universe Connie Francis could've been a dramatic actress. She manages to project desperation in a few scenes in a sort of scary way.

This movie is also a curiosity for the fake late show TV appearances -- Johnny Carson and Danny Thomas -- in the era when Jay Leno appears in every third movie that comes out, hard to remember the beginnings of crossover promotion.

The plot is a typical romantic cross, and it didn't shock me too much to find the screenwriter, Ruth Brooks Flippen, was a writer on both the Gidget movies and the TV show, (as well as a few other notables, e.g. Bewitched) sequeing later to the Odd Couple. It made me want to learn a bit more about her.

If you already like Connie Francis, this will be a delight, and if you're interested in the mating habits of your parents (at least superficially), there are worse ways of spending an hour and a half.