Flavorless comedy has Sandra Dee seeking to please her dying grandfather by using handsome block-of-wood Robert Goulet as a substitute fiancé when her actual beau (Andy Williams!) is a no-show. Hard to imagine any girl having to choose between Goulet and Williams as suitors--they both appear to have escaped from the same jar of mayonnaise. Ross Hunter-produced remake of the 1941 Deanna Durbin vehicle "It Started With Eve" seems set-bound and claustrophobic, hindered further by gloppy color. Three screenwriters (Oscar Brodney, Norman Krasna, Leo Townsend) are credited with the fatuous, unfunny screenplay. Something of a blow to Dee's status as a would-be leading lady (as well as Hunter's obvious aim to fashion her into another Doris Day). Looking grim throughout, Sandra goes through the motions but never has her heart in this featherweight material. * from ****
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