The More the Merrier
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.
- Production
- Columbia Pictures
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Cast
Jean Arthur
Constance Milligan
Joel McCrea
Joe Carter
Charles Coburn
Benjamin Dingle
Richard Gaines
Charles J. Pendergast
Bruce Bennett
FBI Agent Evans
Frank Sully
FBI Agent Pike
Donald Douglas
FBI Agent Harding
Clyde Fillmore
Senator Noonan
Stanley Clements
Morton Rodakiewicz
Sam Ash
Committee Member (uncredited)
Don Barclay
Drunk (uncredited)
Hank Bell
Singing Man on Apartment Stairway (uncredited)
Gladys Blake
Barmaid (uncredited)
Ruth Cherrington
Night Club Guest (uncredited)
Chester Clute
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Ann Doran
Miss Bilby (uncredited)
Henry Hebert
Committee Member (uncredited)
Ernest Hilliard
Senator (uncredited)
Helen Holmes
Dumpy Woman (uncredited)
John Ince
Shaving Gag (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- George Stevens
- Producers
- George Stevens
- Cinematography
- Ted Tetzlaff
- Composer
- Leigh Harline
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CinemaSerf
August 21, 2025
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 comes after a little failed cloak and dagger activity from “Dingle” who was only staying for a few days himself, and who had no authority whatsoever to take the man’s six bucks to sleep in her apartment…