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Saturday, January 25, 2020

That Funny Feeling (1965)

A struggling actress (Sandra Dee) is working as a maid to make ends meet. When she meets an upscale businessman (Bobby Darin)she's too embarrassed to invite him to her postage stamp apartment. So she passes off a swanky apartment that she cleans as her own ... unaware that it's actually the businessman's bachelor pad. Directed by Richard Thorpe (JAILHOUSE ROCK). By 1965Doris Day and Rock Hudson had outgrown the romcoms like PILLOW TALK and LOVER COME BACK that made them king and queen of the box office. Bring in Sandra Dee and then husband Bobby Darin to fill their shoes! The very familiar screenplay feels like a blueprint of those Day/Hudson comedies but Dee and Darin just aren't up to filling those shoes. It's a mildly entertaining and inoffensive movie but there's an air of ennui about it. The film even has a stand in for Tony RandallDonald O'Connor as Darin's recently divorced colleague and Nita Talbot as Dee's room mate serves as a Thelma Ritter confidante. With Leo G. CarrollReta ShawLarry StorchKathleen FreemanArte Johnson and Nora Marlowe.  

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