Critic's Choice

Critic's Choice

Everybody's 'choice' for a great big wonderful time!

1963•1h 40m•5.6/10

ComedyRomance

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.6/10(14)

Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.

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Production

Warner Bros. Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Bob Hope

Bob Hope

Parker Ballantine

Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball

Angela Ballantine

Marilyn Maxwell

Marilyn Maxwell

Ivy London

Rip Torn

Rip Torn

Dion Kapakos

Jessie Royce Landis

Jessie Royce Landis

Charlotte Orr aka Charlie

John Dehner

John Dehner

S.P. Champlain

Jim Backus

Jim Backus

Dr. William Von Hagedorn

Ricky Kelman

Ricky Kelman

John Ballantine

Dorothy Green

Dorothy Green

Mrs. Margaret Champlain

Marie Windsor

Marie Windsor

Sally Orr

Joseph Gallison

Joseph Gallison

Philip "Phil" Yardley

Joan Shawlee

Joan Shawlee

Marge Orr

Richard Deacon

Richard Deacon

Harvey Rittenhouse

Jerome Cowan

Jerome Cowan

Joe Rosenfield

Donald Losby

Geoffrey Von Hagedorn

Lurene Tuttle

Lurene Tuttle

Mother in "Sisters Three"

Ernestine Wade

Ernestine Wade

Thelma

Stanley Adams

Stanley Adams

Bartender

John Alban

Audience Member (uncredited)

Leon Alton

Audience Member (uncredited)

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