A widowed singer marries her late husband's songwriting partner, which leads to trouble when her first husband turns up very much alive.A widowed singer marries her late husband's songwriting partner, which leads to trouble when her first husband turns up very much alive.A widowed singer marries her late husband's songwriting partner, which leads to trouble when her first husband turns up very much alive.
Ron Nyman
- Male Harem Dancer
- (as Ronnie Nyman)
Robert Street
- Male Harem Dancer
- (as Bob Street)
David Ahdar
- Male Harem Dancer
- (uncredited)
Leon Alton
- Bit Role
- (uncredited)
Tom Anthony
- Bit Role
- (uncredited)
Robert Bice
- Sgt. Charlie O'Hallihan
- (uncredited)
Bill Boes
- Male Harem Dancer
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaMercury Records issued a 10-inch LP of the soundtrack, which would be the only contemporary soundtrack album released from a Betty Grable film.
- Quotes
Gwen Howard: I wonder what kind of champagne I should order.
Vernon Lowndes: Depends what you're launching.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982)
- SoundtracksHow Come you Do Me Like You Do
Words and Music by Gene Austin and Ray Bergere
Performed by Betty Grable (uncredited)
Featured review
Betty Grable working for Columbia in her last year of making movies: results tolerable if lacking in zest...
Musical version of 1940's "Too Many Husbands", via W. Somerset Maugham's play "Home and Beauty" (which the author said he wrote as a lark), has widowed--and remarried--Broadway star in a marital quandary: her first husband's death overseas was misreported by the US Air Force (he was actually marooned on an island), and now she has two husbands...and both marriages legal! Grable toys with the possibilities--she even fantasizes a musical number with dozens of suitors housed in cages, climaxing with she and her two husbands under the sheets smoking a hookah! But, this being 1955, we instead have Betty ordering both her husbands out of her boudoir come bedtime. The plot predicament, not surprisingly, doesn't come to much, but in the interim we have some bright moments, not the least of which is Grable's Marilyn Monroe-like delivery in the final number, "How Come You Do Me Like You Do" (which sounds a lot like MM's "Lazy" with a design resembling her "Heat Wave"). Director H. C. Potter opens the picture with a berserk pantomime number danced to "Someone To Watch Over Me" (in harlequin costumes!), but he gets good performances from both Grable and Lemmon (who also sings a little and dances a bit). As a second couple, Marge and Gower Champion dance nicely together but don't have much pizzazz, much like the rest of "Three For the Show". A pleasant marquee-filler but hardly a headliner. **1/2 from ****
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- The Pleasure Is All Mine
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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- 2:55 : 1
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