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The More the Merrier

The only picture with a DINGLE!

7.0(96)
Released:May 13, 1943
Runtime:1h 44m
Status:Released

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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Cast

Jean Arthur

Jean Arthur

Constance Milligan

Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

Joe Carter

Charles Coburn

Charles Coburn

Benjamin Dingle

Richard Gaines

Richard Gaines

Charles J. Pendergast

Bruce Bennett

Bruce Bennett

FBI Agent Evans

Frank Sully

Frank Sully

FBI Agent Pike

Donald Douglas

Donald Douglas

FBI Agent Harding

Clyde Fillmore

Clyde Fillmore

Senator Noonan

Stanley Clements

Stanley Clements

Morton Rodakiewicz

Sam Ash

Sam Ash

Committee Member (uncredited)

Don Barclay

Don Barclay

Drunk (uncredited)

Brandon Beach

Shaving Gag (uncredited)

Betzi Beaton

Miss Finch (uncredited)

Hank Bell

Hank Bell

Singing Man on Apartment Stairway (uncredited)

Edward Biby

Committee Member (uncredited)

Storyline

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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