Houseboat
US (1958): Comedy/Romance
Cary Grant scored still another box-office smash with this 1958 vehicle. Grant plays a widowed father who packs himself and his spoiled kiddies off to a ramshackle houseboat. Enter Sophia Loren, who is attempting to break loose from her tyrannical father's (Eduardo Cianelli) iron grip. She hires on as Grant's housekeeper and his children's governess. Though Grant struggles valiantly to maintain a "hands off" policy, he and Loren are billing and cooing by fadeout time -- but not before plenty of reversals, recriminations and sitcom-style mishaps. As a bonus, the kids end up behaving like little angels (not surprising, since Loren has threatened from time to time to turn them into genuine angels if they don't toe the line). Melville Shavelson directs a cast that also features Marth Hyer, Harry Guardino, Murray Hamilton and Werner Klemperer. According to most sources, the on-screen romance between Cary Grant and Sophia Loren in Houseboat spilled over into their private lives as well, though Sophia put an end to this dalliance when she married Italian movie mogul Carlo Ponti. (Paramount) (Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide)
2 nominations
· Writing (Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen) 1958: Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
· Music Best Song 1958: "Almost in Your Arms" Ray Evans & Jay Livingston - Music & Lyric