On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with the man she's just fleeced.
Acting
David Niven's effortlessly smug patriarch energy steals every scene.
Costume
Mitzi Gaynor's nautical wardrobe is midcentury cruise fashion porn.
Director
Norman Taurog
Mitzi Gaynor
Jean Harris
George Gobel
George "Hotsy" Hamilton
David Niven
Patrick Harris
Reginald Gardiner
Gerald
Fred Clark
Horace Hamilton
Harry Bellaver
Marty Kennedy
Hans Conried
Jacques de Montaigne
Marilyn Hanold
Girl
Clinton Sundberg
Purser
Rex Evans
Burrows
Mary Treen
Mrs. Burnside
Charles Lane
Charlie Jenkins
Kevin Corcoran
Hans
Renate Hoy
Countess Von Lindorff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is a sanitized remake of Preston Sturges' 1941 masterpiece 'The Lady Eve,' stripped of its bite and Barbara Stanwyck's femme fatale complexity.
George Gobel was a TV comedian with zero film experience — studio execs cast him hoping his small-screen popularity would translate to box office gold. It didn't.
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