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The More the Merrier

The More the Merrier

7.0/ 10

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95

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1943

Release Year

104 min

Runtime

Comedy
Romance

Overview

It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.

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Keywords

washington dc, usa
coffee
binoculars
housing shortage
classified ad

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7.0avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

August 21, 2025

7
7/10

I’d have liked a bit more from Charles Coburn in this, but he still features engagingly enough as the man who facilitates the meeting of his unexpectedly acquired landlady “Connie” (Jean Arthur) to the man he has sub-let one half of his bedroom too. That man is “Joe” (Joel McCrea) and his arrival co

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