

Critic's Choice
1963-02-24 · 100 min · ★ 5.6
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.
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- Directors
- Don Weis
- Production companies
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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Bob HopeParker Ballantine
Lucille BallAngela Ballantine
Marilyn MaxwellIvy London
Rip TornDion Kapakos
Jessie Royce LandisCharlotte Orr
John DehnerS.P. Champlain
Jim BackusWilliam Von Hagedorn
Ricky KelmanJohn Ballantine
Dorothy GreenMargaret Champlain
Marie WindsorSally Orr
Joseph GallisonPhil Yardley
Joan ShawleeMarge Orr
Richard DeaconHarvey Rittenhouse
Jerome CowanJoe Rosenfield
Lurene TuttleMother in Sisters Three
Ernestine WadeThelma
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