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The More the Merrier

6.9 104 mins Comedy   Romance   1943
Columbia Pictures  
Director(s): George Stevens

Release Date: 13 Thu, May 1943

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.

Casts of The More the Merrier

Jean Arthur

as Constance Milligan

Joel McCrea

as Joe Carter

Charles Coburn

as Benjamin Dingle

Richard Gaines

as Charles J. Pendergast

Bruce Bennett

as FBI Agent Evans

Frank Sully

as FBI Agent Pike

Donald Douglas

as FBI Agent Harding

Clyde Fillmore

as Senator Noonan

Stanley Clements

as Morton Rodakiewicz

Sam Ash

as Committee Member (uncredited)

Don Barclay

as Drunk (uncredited)

Brandon Beach

as Shaving Gag (uncredited)

Betzi Beaton

as Miss Finch (uncredited)

Hank Bell

as Singing Man on Apartment Stairway (uncredited)

Edward Biby

as Committee Member (uncredited)

Gladys Blake

as Barmaid (uncredited)

Lulu Mae Bohrman

as Secretary (uncredited)

Sally Cairns

as Bathing Girl (uncredited)

Jack Carr

as Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Ruth Cherrington

as Night Club Guest (uncredited)

Chester Clute

as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Lew Davis

as Man Entering Elevator (uncredited)

Ann Doran

as Miss Bilby (uncredited)

Eddie Foster

as Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Jack Gardner

as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Sugar Geise

as Dancer (uncredited)

Hal Gerard

as Second Statistician (uncredited)

Nancy Gray

as Miss Chasen (uncredited)

Harrison Greene

as Apartment Seeker (uncredited)

June Harris

as Girl (uncredited)

Henry Hebert

as Committee Member (uncredited)

Robert F. Hill

as Headwaiter (uncredited)

Ernest Hilliard

as Senator (uncredited)

Helen Holmes

as Dumpy Woman (uncredited)

Russell Huestis

as Night Club Guest (uncredited)

John Ince

as Shaving Gag (uncredited)

Fred Johnson

as Juggler (uncredited)

Jack W. Johnston

as Night Club Guest (uncredited)

Edna Mae Jones

as Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Mike Lally

as Man Leaving Elevator (uncredited)

Pat Lane

as Waiter (uncredited)

Frank LaRue

as Senator in Taxi (uncredited)

Douglas Leavitt

as Waiter (uncredited)

Kay Linaker

as Miss Allen (uncredited)

Eric Mayne

as Singing Man on Apartment Stairway (uncredited)

Betty McMahon

as Miss Geeskin (uncredited)

Shirley Patterson

as Girl (uncredited)

Lon Poff

as Sleeper (uncredited)

Hal Price

as Bathing Man (uncredited)

Bertha Priestley

as Fat Girl (uncredited)

Fred Rapport

as Shaving Gag (uncredited)

Henry Roquemore

as Washington Sun Reporter (uncredited)

Marshall Ruth

as Fat Statistician (uncredited)

Ann Savage

as Miss Dalton (uncredited)

Byron Shores

as Air Corps Maj. Denton (uncredited)

Jean Stevens

as Dancer (uncredited)

Grady Sutton

as Diner Counterman (uncredited)

Diedra Vale

as Fat Girl (uncredited)

David Ward

as Waiter (uncredited)

Douglas Wood

as Senator in Taxi (uncredited)

Marjorie Wood

as Snippish Woman (uncredited)

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