To fully appreciate The More the Merrier, it is important to know that, during WW2, there was an acute housing shortage in Washington DC. This is why elderly Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn) is obliged to share a tiny DC apartment with pretty Connie Milli
The film is set in colonial Virginia between the 1750s and 1781. Matt Howard (Cary Grant), orphaned son of a backwoods Virginia farmer, uses his connections with his schoolmate Tom Jefferson to get employment as a surveyor and a grant of a thousand acres
Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich young widow, but finds himself falling for her for real, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts. 译文(2): 前美国大兵尼克 · 布莱克卷入了一场骗取一位富有年轻寡妇钱财的阴谋,但他发现自己真的爱上了她,这让他的敲诈团伙非常不高兴。
一個成功的女人,背後會有個怎樣的男人?本片根據真人真事改編,其實是一個沒有愛情的愛情故事。影片描繪名歌手Ruth Etting 與丈夫兼經理人、芝加哥黑幫頭子的愛恨。她不愛他,但為了成名,接受他的庇護及擺佈;他卻是真心愛她,也尊重她,一心一意幫助她發展事業,始終沒有強佔她。最後,她明星夢是圓了,也為了報恩嫁了他,但是音樂背後的故事,疑幻也似真。舞台巨星對人歡笑背人愁,她背後的男人,何嘗沒有淒酸?