The More the Merrier

Overview
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
Review (1)
CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)
I’d have liked a bit more from Charles Coburn in this, but he still features engagingly enough as the man who facilitates the meeting of his unexpectedly acquired landlady “Connie” (Jean Arthur) to the man he has sub-let one half of his bedroom too. That man is “Joe” (Joel McCrea) and his arrival co...
Recommendation & Similar
Ball of Fire (1941)
Marooned (1969)
Death Watch (1980)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Lady of Burlesque (1943)
If You Could Only Cook (1935)
The Sandlot (1993)
A Goofy Movie (1995)
Willow (1988)
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
It Chapter Two (2019)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
Rear Window (1954)
Sleepwalkers (1992)
Parasite (2019)
A Serbian Film (2010)
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
Oppenheimer (2023)
It Feeds (2025)