The Idea of You
2024 · Music · Comedy
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Film / 1955
Ma sœur est du tonnerre
Directed by
Richard Quine
Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment, but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.
The story
Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment, but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.
Cast
Janet LeighEileen Sherwood
Jack LemmonBob Baker
Betty GarrettRuth Sherwood
Bob FosseFrank Lippincott
Kurt KasznarPapa Appopolous
Dick YorkTed Loomis
Lucy MarlowHelen
Tommy RallChick Clark
Barbara BrownHelen's Mother
Horace McMahonOfficer Lonigan
Henry SlateDrunk #2
Hal MarchDrunk #1
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Queenie SmithAlice (uncredited)
Franklyn FarnumPedestrian (uncredited)
Alphonse MartellHeadwaiter (uncredited)
Peter NormanWaiter (uncredited)
Alberto MorinBrazilian Consul (uncredited)
Jeffrey SayreNightclub Patron (uncredited)
Cosmo SardoMan Helping Eileen (uncredited)
Sid TomackCounterman (uncredited)
Emil SitkaBit Welder (uncredited)
Dorothy Phillips(uncredited)
Anne LoosReceptionist (uncredited)
Ken ChristyCharlie (uncredited)
Richard DeaconBaker's Receptionist (uncredited)
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