Love Is A Ball
starring
Glenn Ford ■ Hope Lange ■ Charles Boyer
(1963)
The hilariously mad story of all the best things in life that are not free... and the one thing that definitely is!
| On the French Riviera, a professional matchmaker assisted by an American adventurer arranges for convenience marriages between titled impoverished aristocratic men and rich low-bred women. Ever get so bored that you watch a movie you probably wouldn't have under normal circumstances only to find that you really like it? Love Is A Ball was one of those for me. Normally I'm not a fan of either Glenn Ford or Charles Boyer, but I was bored. But, then again, boredom has actually lead me to several good Glenn Ford movies, The Gazebo, It Started With A Kiss, and this one, to name a few. I watched this movie when I was in need of what I call “a fluff piece.” And Love Is A Ball is exactly that. Light, easy to watch, fun, amusing, humorous, and with the very necessary happy ending. A little while after I watched it I also put it on for my parents to watch. A little surprisingly, they seemed to enjoy it as much as I did and I heard more than one chuckle during some of the funnier moments. Of course, it is hard not to laugh at this little group of so charmingly mercenary people. I will note that if you have little kids this 60s rom-com is aimed at adults, it's a little PG-13 in nature though it is implied only and absolutely nothing is shown. Seriously, you have to admire the extra skill it took to tell this kind of a story and get it by the censors. Though I thought Hope Lange was a trying a little too hard to be Sandra Dee, and I could definitely have seen Maurice Chevalier in Charles Boyer's role, I did get a kick out of it. Oh, and if you choose to watch Love Is A Ball yourself, pay attention to the scenes with Hope Lange driving Glenn Ford and you just might recognize some of the scenery....To Catch A Thief, anyone? Oh, one more thing, you just gotta dig those snazzy race cars! There's some real automobile history there....  1 hour 51 minutes | Principal Cast Glenn Ford...John Lathrop Davis Hope Lange...Millicent 'Millie' Mehaffey Charles Boyer...M. Etienne Pimm Ricardo Montalban...Duke Gaspard Ducluzeau Telly Savalas...Dr. Christian Gump (Millie's uncle) Ruth McDevitt...Mathilda Ulla Jacobsson...Janine Georgette Anys...Mme. Gallou Robert Bettoni...Milkman Mony Dalmès...Mme. Fernier Laurence Hardy...Priory Jean Le Maitre...Carlo André Luguet...Maurice Zoltan Filming Location(s) Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France The South, France Trivia Based on a novel by Lindsay Hardy called "The Grand Duke and Mr. Pimm" Glenn Ford was 17 years older than Hope Lange. Despite this age gap, Ford outlived Lange by 20 years, passing away in 2006 at age 90, three years after Lange died in 2003 at age 70. Ricardo Montalban was 13 years older than Lange, and also outlived her, in his case by 18 years, passing away in 2009 at age 88. Of the four actors portraying the two couples, Ulla Jacobsson had the shortest lifespan, passing away in 1982 at age 53. This was originally announced as a Blake Edwards picture with Alec Guinness and Peter Ustinov starring.  |
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