Stage play brought to the big screen and finally to DVD, and you.
Several plots overlap. I will not go into detail, as it is fun to be surprised.
However, working as an operator for a phone answering service, Ella Peterson (Judy Holliday) is in the perfect location to hear people's problems, and she schemes to help them. At first, she passes the information on by way of phone. When one customer unplugs, she decides to help in person. She takes on an alias, “Melisande Scott,” and falls in love with a customer, Jeffrey Moss (Dean Martin), but she takes on more than she bargained for.
Meanwhile, Inspector Barns suspects that the answering service is a front for some hanky panky and is looking for an excuse to put the lot of them in the women's detention center.
And J. Otto Prantz just sold 5000 copies of Beethoven's Tenth, Op. 6.
Lots of songs, including “Plaza O, Double Four, Double Three,” and dance scenes. The still camera gives it that stage musical feel, but it only adds to the fun.
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One note on the DVD. The outtakes, except for one Dean Martin song, "My Guiding Star," were best taken out as they distracted from the rest of the story.
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