Houseboat (film)

Houseboat is a 1958 Technicolor romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Paul Petersen, Charles Herbert, and Mimi Gibson. The movie was directed by Melville Shavelson, who also directed the original version of Yours, Mine and Ours 1968. The love theme Almost In Your Arms, sung by Sam Cooke and Bing Bang Bong, sung by Loren, were written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.

The children resent their father, and, at an outdoor concert, Robert runs away. He is found by Cinzia Zaccardi Loren. She too is running away and is enchanted by little Roberto and his harmonica. When she brings him back home, Tom offers her a job as a maid, unaware she is the daughter of a famous Italian conductor. She eventually accepts.Carolyn, now divorced from her husband, offers Tom and the children her old guest house, which was supposed to be moved to a new foundation. However, while the guest house is being towed down the road, it is smashed by an Atlantic Coast Line passenger train after the towtruck driver, Angelo Donatello Guardino, flirts with Cinzia and accidentally hits Toms car. Feeling guilty, Angelo sells Tom his leaky, rundown, old houseboat. ........

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