Under The Yum Yum Tree (1963)

A college student (Carol Lynley) insists that she and her boyfriend (Dean Jones, recreating his stage role) move in together platonically to test their relationship before getting married. Meanwhile, her lecherous landlord (Jack Lemmon) plots to seduce her. Sex comedies, usually adapted from Broadway plays as this one was, were very popular in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Very few of them hold up well today and this one with Lemmon's satyr leering and panting over nubile young things, sexual innuendo, snickering and the scandalous (for 1963) notion of two people of the opposite sex living together without benefit of marriage seems as tame as an episode of THREE'S COMPANY. Lemmon's character is particularly unsavory and today would be inundated with sexual harassment lawsuits. The real stars of the film are a scene stealing ginger cat and Dale Hennesy's marvelous California Spanish apartment building set. Outside of the scene stealing feline, laughs are near non existent. Directed by David Swift (THE PARENT TRAP). With Edie Adams, Imogene Coca, Paul Lynde, Robert Lansing and Joy Harmon.