No Image Available

Love's a Luxury

Oct 1, 1952

1h 29m

★ 5.2

Overview

A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Film Studios Manchester

Love's a Luxury Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Charles Pentwick

Hugh Wakefield

Robert Bentley

Derek Bond

Dick Pentwick

Michael Medwin

Mrs. Pentwick

Helen Shingler

Fritzi Villiers

Zena Marshall

Clarence Mole

Bill Shine

Molly Harris

Patricia Raine

Mrs. Harris

Grace Arnold

Broadcast live on the Hallmark Hall of Fame series on NBC, a pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.

0.0

Martin Petit: Full Scale

Jan 1, 2002

No overview available.

5.4

Act Like You Love Me

Aug 6, 2013

Kelly Lofton is a young, successful dentist who has all the material things a woman could ask for. However, Kelly has struggled to find time for love in her busy schedule, so when her younger sister Susan gets engaged to a seemingly perfect man and organizes an extravagant engagement party, Kelly panics. She hires a gorgeous actor for the weekend to accompany her to the party. Her ruse quickly develops into something real and Kelly realizes the only thing missing in her life is love.

6.1

Jay Kelly

Nov 14, 2025

Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting both his past and present, accompanied by his devoted manager, Ron.

6.1

Top Five

Dec 12, 2014

Though he began in stand-up comedy, Andre Allen hit the big-time as the star of a trilogy of action-comedies about a talking bear but now he wants to be taken seriously. His passion project about the Haitian Revolution, a movie called Uprize, was panned by the NY Times film critic. A couple days before the wedding to his reality star fiancée, he's forced to spend the day with Chelsea Brown, a profile writer for the New York Times. Unexpectedly, he opens up to her, and as they wind their way across New York, he tries to get back in touch with his comedic roots.

6.6

Luck by Chance

Jan 30, 2009

Not wanting the same fate as befell her sisters, Sona Mishra re-locates to Mumbai to try to make a living making movies, but she soon finds that the path she has chosen is not an easy one.

5.8

I Could Never Be Your Woman

May 11, 2007

A mother falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time.

0.0

Method Men

Invalid Date

Two actors find themselves cast in the same projects, butting heads over their opposing approaches to the craft

7.1

Galaxy Quest

Dec 25, 1999

For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space ... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.

8.0

Acting with Sharks

Aug 2, 2013

Aspiring actors take a workshop to learn to act with live sharks but bite off more than they can chew when the instructor turns out to be crazy.

5.8

Baghead

Jan 21, 2008

Four actors go to a cabin in the woods to write, direct, and act in a film that will jump-start their careers. Their idea is a horror film about a man with a bag over his head, but what happens when that man mysteriously shows up?

7.4

Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction

Dec 6, 2009

HBO presents one of the most gifted and revered performers of our time, Academy-Award winning Robin Williams, starring in his fifth exclusive HBO special, taped before a live audience at Washington's Constitution Hall.

8.2

The Truman Show

Jun 4, 1998

An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show.

6.7

Dinner at Eight

Dec 22, 1933

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.

6.1

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Sep 25, 1943

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

6.1

Accidental Texan

Mar 8, 2024

Erwin blows his first acting job and finds himself stranded in Texas, where he's taken under the wing of a nearly bankrupt oil driller Merle and his cohort Faye. The three set off on a wild adventure to outwit the bank and a corrupt oil company to hit pay dirt before Merle's dreams are foreclosed.

7.1

Yannick

Aug 2, 2023

In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.

6.8

Intervista

Oct 1, 1987

Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.