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Synopsis: The Happy Soap Company is owned and managed by the Fraleigh family. Although he is more of a company figurehead than an active participant in the company's day-to-day business, anything that family patriarch Tom Fraleigh wants for the company he usually gets. What he wants is Beverly Boyer - the wife of his daughter-in-law's obstetrician, Dr. Gerald Boyer - to appear as the company spokesperson when Beverly, who he meets at a small dinner party, mentions a personal and true story about how Happy Soap saved her life. She is to appear in a live commercial spot during a Happy Soap sponsored television show telling her story just as she told Tom. Despite Beverly's performance going poorly in her own mind, Tom loved it and how refreshing and honest Beverly came across to the viewer. So Tom signs her to a one year, $80,000 contract to continue doing the same. This move is questioned by Happy Soap's own managers and its advertising company. But it is questioned even more by Gerald, who believ
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Norman Jewison
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
APPROVED
Year:
1963
108 min
188 Views


I told Andy to tell you.

- Well, he didn't.

- That's my boy.

Well, you've still got time to dress.

I've just roasted a $6.34 standing rib roast.

I'll eat it for breakfast.

- Hey, sweetheart.

- What?

Did you know I'm a great doctor?

I've always suspected it.

How did you find out?

I helped a lady become pregnant.

- You did what?

- She's been trying for 20 years.

Oh. Oh, really? Um, what did you do?

I gave her a piece of advice.

I told her and her husband to stop

trying to have a baby.

- You mean stopping did it?

- No, relaxing did it.

- We got a date?

- Mmm.

- What about the children?

- Let 'em get their own dates.

- But I gave Olivia the night off.

- Get a sitter.

To hire a sitter at a dollar an hour

when we're paying a housekeeper,

I just think it's a sin.

Bev, even the best of us sin once in a while.

Tonight's your night.

Now, stop it. Now, come on.

Tell me about Mrs Fraleigh.

Did you really tell her

to stop trying to have a baby?

I told her more than that.

I also told her to take a three-month

ocean cruise with her husband.

That did it, huh?

- That took the pressure off psychologically.

- Mmm.

- How did you know it would work?

- I didn't.

But I had three things working for me.

They were capable,

they loved each other

and there is very little to do

on a three-month ocean cruise.

Oh, you are a great doctor.

- The chauffeur's looking.

- Oh, he doesn't mind.

Excuse me. You don't mind if we kiss

in the back seat?

Not if it pleases you, sir.

- Good evening.

- Hello.

May I have your name, please?

Dr and Mrs Gerald Boyer.

Oh, yes, Mr and Mrs Wingate.

Will you follow me, please?

Mr and Mrs...

Something.

- I'm so glad you could come.

- I'm sorry we're late.

- Sitter problems.

- I can't wait to have that problem.

- So glad to meet you, Mrs Boyer. Doctor.

- Shh!

Shh! Damn!

- Thank you.

- Shh! Damn!

He means me.

Here it comes! Here it comes!

'Before joining the third act

of Happy Playhouse,

'here is a brief word

from our Happy Girl.'

'Hi! I'm Spot Checker.

'I've just been signed

to appear in a motion picture.

'Of course, it's just a small part.

'But all the glamorous movie stars

started out by playing small parts.

'There are so many things

a girl must learn

'before she can become

a glamorous movie star.

'First of all, she has to learn

what clothes to wear and what hairstyle.

'Oh, and how to act.

'A famous star once said to me,

"Spot," she said,

"'it's not enough that you look like a star

or act like a star.

"'You must smell like a star."

'So it was there and then

that I learned about...

'Happy soap - the heavenly soap.

'Lt smells like stars.

'Won't you join me...

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Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922) is an American comedian, actor, director, and writer whose career spans seven decades. During the early years of television comedy from 1950 to 1957, he co-wrote and acted on Caesar's Hour and Your Show of Shows, starring Sid Caesar. In the 1960s, Reiner was best known as the creator, producer, writer, and actor on The Dick Van Dyke Show. He also had great success as a film director and writer and partnered with Steve Martin in the 1970s when Reiner co-wrote and/or directed some of Martin's most successful films, including the 1979 film The Jerk. Reiner formed a comedy duo with Mel Brooks in "2000 Year Old Man" and acted in films such as The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) and the Ocean's Trilogy (2001–2007). Reiner has won nine Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award during his career. He is the father of actor and director Rob Reiner, author Annie Reiner, and grandfather to Tracy Reiner. more…

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