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Synopsis: Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding. Effie!
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Sidney Sheldon
Production: Warner Bros
 
IMDB:
6.0
APPROVED
Year:
1953
100 min
105 Views


Wait till you see this.

We,, do you approve?

Good.

Well, here we go.

Sorry I'm late, darling.

Darling.

What a day I've had.

You could have fooled me.

Oh, hello, Brutus.

Oh, isn't that a new hat?

Yes, do you like it?

Oh, it's very pretty.

It's awfully dark in here, dear.

There, that's better.

Fix me a drink, will you, darling?

Champagne coming up.

Make it a Scotch and water, would you, Clem?

Yes, dear, yes.

No ice, just a lemon and easy on the water.

Well, here we are, dear.

Well, darling, here's to...

...us.

I'm so glad you're back.

Oh, darling, I'm glad to be back.

I can assure you.

Hello, Annie.

Good evening, Miss Effington.

Dinner in ten minutes.

What...

Ten minutes?

What's the matter?

I have to go and make the salad dressing.

O know how you love it.

Excuse me, dear, I'll only be a minute.

Everything under control in the kitchen?

Oh, yes, wait until you taste it.

Is that a new bow tie?

Yes, do you like it?

Hmm, I do.

I always like your bow ties.

Now, that's better.

This is the first time I've relaxed in three weeks.

Good.

Honestly we never dreamed there'd be

this much fuss about the oil leases.

First Iraq, then Iran, and now Bukistan is in the act.

Thank heavens I'm a woman. A man couldn't take it.

Never, my darling.

A week from tomorrow

you can forget about everything except us.

I've been thinking about that, Clem.

Oh, so have I.

Now, I can't make up my mind

where we ought to spend our honeymoon.

Bermuda, Honolulu, the farm in Vermont,

or shall we just throw the key away?

Clem...

What?

I'm afraid we'll have to postpone the wedding

till after the oil deal is signed.

What?

I don't see any other way, truly I don't.

There are so many things to get done.

Meetings, conferences, reports,

and all of them so urgent.

So is our wedding.

But I mean really urgent.

Oh, for God's...

I mean, we can wait. The Middle East can't.

We can get married any time.

Can we?

Look, darling, I want us to be together

just as much as you do.

But I can't let MacBride down.

He's counting on me.

Of course not.

Perhaps we could work in the wedding somehow.

You know, between phone calls.

Now just a minute. Don't you think you're being

a little selfish?

You mean for wanting to get married?

No, for putting your own happiness

before the welfare of the United States.

Oh, Effie, if I thought the welfare of the United States

depended upon your answering a telephone...

Oh, so that's it.

You think what I'm doing is like belonging to a garden club

or having a hot game of Mahjong with the girls.

No, no, I didn't say that.

You didn't have to.

You just can't believe that anything I'm doing

can be important enough to really matter.

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Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer and producer. He came to prominence in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) which earned him an Academy Award. He went on to work in television, where his works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70) and Hart to Hart (1979–84). He became most famous after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling romantic suspense novels, such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980). He is the seventh best selling fiction writer of all time. more…

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