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Houseboat
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
1958 · Directed by Melville Shavelson · 110 min · Comedy · Romance · 9 frames
Tagline
It All Happens Happily on a Heaven of a Houseboat!
Crew
- Screenplay: Betsy Drake
- Written by: Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
- Cinematography: Ray June
- Edited by: Frank Bracht
- Music: George Duning
- Produced by: Jack Rose
Cast
- Cary Grant as Tom Winters
- Sophia Loren as Cinzia Zaccardi
- Martha Hyer as Carolyn Gibson
- Harry Guardino as Angelo Donatello
- Eduardo Ciannelli as Arturo Zaccardi
- Murray Hamilton as Capt. Alan Wilson
- Mimi Gibson as Elizabeth Winters
- Paul Petersen as David Winters
- Charles Herbert as Robert Winters
- Werner Klemperer as Harold Messner
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Italian
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
- Box office: $3,500,000
- Themes: class society, washington dc, usa, parent child relationship, harmonica, houseboat, nanny, ball, boat wedding, single father
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