Comment réussir dans les affaires sans vraiment essayer

Titre original : How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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Maureen Arthur, Michele Lee, and Robert Morse in Comment réussir dans les affaires sans vraiment essayer (1967)

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Satire Comedy Musical

J. Pierpont Finch laveur de vitre achète un livre décrivant comment réussir dans le monde des affaires. Il se met aussitôt à essayer les méthodes données...J. Pierpont Finch laveur de vitre achète un livre décrivant comment réussir dans le monde des affaires. Il se met aussitôt à essayer les méthodes données...J. Pierpont Finch laveur de vitre achète un livre décrivant comment réussir dans le monde des affaires. Il se met aussitôt à essayer les méthodes données...

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Récompenses
- 2 nominations au total

Anecdotes
The scene featuring Robert Morse skipping & dancing down the street on his way to work (immediately after the "Old Ivy" fight song duet with Rudy Vallee ) was filmed on location in New York City using hidden cameras and a small earpiece to cue Morse on his timing. The various amused & astonished passersby were not extras, but rather were New Yorkers reacting genuinely to someone dancing to his own tune. It may be noted that, in typical New York fashion, no matter how odd he appeared to be virtually none of the New Yorkers paid him any notice whatsoever.

Gaffes
During opening credits number, Robert Morse and a young fellow window washer board an electric scaffolding in exterior rooftop shot, but by next scene when scaffolding has descended a few floors, co-worker is now a much older man with much less hair.

Citations
J. B. Biggley: I know blood is thicker than water, but Bud Frump is thicker than anything. I'll promote him when I'm ready. Now, you listen to me, Gertrude. The next time Bud complains to his mother, and she calls you, and you call me, you're all fired. Damn it.

Versions alternatives
The 1998 VHS release contained the 1994 variant of the United Artists logo.

Connexions
Featured in Le Drew Carey Show: Brotherhood of Man (1999)

Bandes originales
How To
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Written by Frank Loesser
Performed by Robert Morse

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7/10

Good musical film based on Broadway show

Today, at 77 years old, Robert Morse is still going strong as Mad Men's Cooper, but there's no question that his heyday was the late '50s to the early '70s, when his toothy grin, amiable tenor and boyish acting made him the toast of Broadway. Here, he repeats his Broadway success as J. Pierpont Finch in "How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying," a 1967 film also starring Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee, and Anthony Teague. Lee and Vallee also repeat their Broadway roles.

With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, "How to Succeed" is the story of window washer J. Pierpont Finch, who in a matter of days, thanks to a book he carries around by the same name as the film title, has risen through the ranks of the Worldwide Wicket Company without doing any work. He has his enemies, but one very good friend in Rosemary (Lee), a secretary with a crush on him who wants Ponty, as he is called, to make good.

I'm not all that familiar with the musical, but I understand that there are several songs missing, including "Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm." The standouts are "I Believe in You," which became a hit song, and the rousing "Brotherhood of Man." What makes the music for me is the wonderful orchestrations.

Sexist today in some of its themes, this is a brightly-colored musical, done the old-fashioned way, without cutting the numbers to pieces. Morse is delightful and never had any trouble adapting to film. Ditto a young, pretty Lee who sings "I Believe in You" like a dream. Vallee is well cast as the head of the company who has a girlfriend on the side. Anthony Teague is very good as the boss' nephew, but Charles Nelson Reilly played this role on stage, and I can only imagine how hilarious he was in the role.

Good movie, and director David Swift keeps the pace moving.