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The Notorious Landlady is a 1962 American comedy mystery film starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, and Fred Astaire. [4] [5] The film was directed by Richard Quine, with a script by Blake Edwards and Larry Gelbart based on the short story "The Notorious Tenant" by Margery Sharp.
The Notorious Landlady: Directed by Richard Quine. With Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries. An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
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- Comedy, Mystery
- Richard Quine
- 1962-04-13
The Notorious Landlady. When her husband disappears, Carly Hardwicke (Kim Novak) finds it impossible to rent a room in her London apartment, since everyone assumes she's a murderer. Recently...
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- Richard Quine
- Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
- Kim Novak
The Notorious Landlady is a comedy-suspense melodrama somewhat akin in essence and style to Arsenic and Old Lace. Unlike its distant theatrical ancestor, however, the Fred Kohlmar production is...
"The Notorious Landlady" is a comedy mystery that also is a light satire. It does a little spoofing of the Foreign Service of the U.S. State Department. It pokes some fun at Scotland Yard, busy bodies of the time, and of the press.
Richard Quine served as something of a mentor to Blake Edwards, who scripted several of Quine’s first feature films at Columbia, including Operation Mad Ball, one of Edwards’ earliest works to point towards his signature: A mixture of broad farce and social satire, combined in the service of a preoccupation with evolving sexual mores.
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Directed by Richard Quine, The Notorious Landlady follows an American diplomat (Jack Lemmon’s Bill Gridley) as he rents a London flat from a mysterious woman named Carly Hardwicke (Kim Novak) and subsequently begins dating her – with complications ensuing after Bill’s boss (Fred Astaire’s Franklyn Ambruster) and various other official ...
