Anxiously awaiting a divorce from her husband, beautiful Janet Lagerlof (Romy Schneider) is suddenly plunged into a complex situation when she learns that she will inherit $15 million from her grandfather’s estate – provided she is happily married and living with her husband!
Undaunted, she calls in her “good neighbour Sam” (Jack Lemmon) after bribing his wife, Minerva (Dorothy Provine) with the promise of a million dollars and persuades him to pose as her husband.
Sam – a wholesome family man – moves in just in time, because two of Janet’s cousins – who will inherit the money if they can prove she is not living with her husband – employ a private detective (Louis Nye) to snoop around.
When Janet’s husband Howard (Mike Connors) arrives on the scene unexpectedly, he is persuaded to move in with Sam’s wife to keep up the facade.
Worse is to come, though. Sam has just been promoted by his advertising company (Burke & Hare) and now handles the firm’s most important account – the Nurdlinger Dairy company – and Mr Nurdlinger (Edward G. Robinson) – also a wholesome family man – regards Janet and Sam as an ideal married couple and pastes their photograph on billboards all over town.
Sam Bissell
Jack Lemmon Janet Lagerlof
Romy Schneider Minerva Bissell
Dorothy Provine Howard Ebbets
Mike Connors Mr Burke
Edward Andrews Reinhold Shiffner
Louis Nye Earl
Robert Q. Lewis Hotel Prostitute
Joyce Jameson Irene
Anne Seymour Jack Bailey
Charles Lane Edna Bailey
Linda Watkins Phil Reisner
Peter Hobbs Sonny Blatchford
Tristram Coffin Larry Boling
Neil Hamilton Miss Halverson
Riza Royce Millard Mellner
William Forrest The Hi-Los
Themselves Simon Nurdlinger
Edward G. Robinson
Director
David Swift
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