Houseboat (film)

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Houseboat
Directed by Melville Shavelson
Produced by Jack Rose
Written by Melville Shavelson
Jack Rose
Starring Cary Grant
Sophia Loren
Martha Hyer
Paul Petersen
Charles Herbert
Harry Guardino
Music by George Duning
Cinematography Ray June
Editing by Frank Bracht
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) November 19 1958
Running time 109 min.
Language English
IMDb profile

Houseboat is a 1958 romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Paul Petersen, Charles Herbert and Mimi Gibson. The movie was directed by Melville Shavelson, who also directed the original 1968 version of Yours, Mine and Ours.

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[edit] Plot Summary

Tom Winters Cary Grant, has been separated from his wife for a few years. Intermittently in the children's lives, the maternal family wants to take care of the children when their mother dies in a car crash. He decided that he will take care of the children in the end. Now a single parent, he is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. At first, they are defiant and are concerned with his ability to parent. At the Watergate concert, the yongest boy runs off and meets Cinzia Sophia Lauren. The kids then convince their father to hire her and she eventually accepts. However, she is actually an Italian socialite who is trying to get away from her overprotective father.

While on the way to their new house outside of the city, the premises accidentally gets hits by a train. The family then moves into a houseboat. Tom then discovers that Cinzia is unable to cook, do laundry or make coffee without an expresso machine. However, her charms eventually win Tom over, but when the children are not happy about the new relationship, she leaves to rejoin her father. Tom follows her to win her back and with her father's blessing. At the wedding, the kids were at first reluctant, but join the couple and the marriage ceremony continues with the five holding hands.

[edit] Filming locations

Parts of the movie were filmed in Fort Washington, Maryland on the Potomac River and Piscataway Creek at the present site of Fort Washington marina.

[edit] Featured cast

Actor Role
Cary Grant Tom Winters
Sophia Loren Cinzia Zaccardi
Martha Hyer Carolyn Gibson
Paul Petersen David Winters
Charles Herbert Robert Winters
Mimi Gibson Elizabeth Winters
Harry Guardino Angelo Donatello
Eduardo Ciannelli Arturo Zaccardi
Werner Klemperer Harold Messner
John Litel Mr. William Farnsworth
Madge Kennedy Mrs. Farnsworth

[edit] Awards

  • The film was nominated for two Oscar Awards: one for Best Original Song for "Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)", and the other for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen.
  • The movie won Golden Laurel Awards for Top Comedy and Top Male Comedy Performance by Cary Grant.

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