Houseboat

Tom Winters, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is be the new maid. She is actually an Italian socialite who is trying to get away from her overprotective father.

STARS: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer

110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 1958 | Color

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Grant and Loren - My Favorite Film
A lot of people are dismissive of this item, however, I was 14 when it was released and absolutely adored it. I still watch it from time to time because the two principals were so in to each other and it just oozed with glamor and romance and humor, plus you got hear Sophia sing. She could sing, you know. She was and is a charmer. And then there was the chemistry she had with the kids in the film. No wonder she wound up being such an exemplary parent to her two sons. To anyone who loves a warm blooded comedy, "Houseboat" is it.

"Hesto, Presto, One of Cary's Very Besto"
Cary Grant, prominent diplomat and widower, is trying to get acquainted again with his three kids, Paul Petersen, Mimi Gibson, and Charles Herbert. He's also got a sister-in-law, Martha Hyer, crushing out on him big time.

But after the youngest kid, Herbert, wanders away after a concert, he meets Sophia Loren who is also running away from her conductor father, Eduardo Ciannelli. They are soul mates Herbert and Loren and before long she's moved in on the Grant family.

Which is forced by circumstance I won't reveal to live on a houseboat in the woods in Maryland. The Houseboat and its many problems lend itself to a whole lot of physical problems and one rather dramatic one, when one of the kids nearly drowns. Cary gets a lot of good mileage out of the comedy.

This was Cary and Sophia's second film together and it was one big improvement on the overblown Pride and the Passion. No doubt that the two of them were still involved from The Pride and the Passion lends a lot of truth in the scenes Grant and Loren play together.

Also look for a nice performance by Harry Guardino who's the one who is responsible for the group being on the Houseboat.

Houseboat is a nice family comedy and hasn't aged a bit from the Fifties when it was made.