The More the Merrier

May 13, 1943

1h 44m

★ 6.9

The only picture with a DINGLE!

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.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Constance Milligan

Jean Arthur

Joe Carter

Joel McCrea

Benjamin Dingle

Charles Coburn

Charles J. Pendergast

Richard Gaines

FBI Agent Evans

Bruce Bennett

FBI Agent Pike

Frank Sully

FBI Agent Harding

Donald Douglas

Senator Noonan

Clyde Fillmore

Morton Rodakiewicz

Stanley Clements

Committee Member (uncredited)

Sam Ash

Drunk (uncredited)

Don Barclay

Shaving Gag (uncredited)

Brandon Beach

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