The More the Merrier (1943)
"The only picture with a DINGLE!"
ThumbScore
👍 82%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 94%
(RT: 94%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Jean Arthur as Constance Milligan
Joel McCrea as Joe Carter
Charles Coburn as Benjamin Dingle
Richard Gaines as Charles J. Pendergast
Bruce Bennett as FBI Agent Evans
Frank Sully as FBI Agent Pike
Donald Douglas as FBI Agent Harding
Clyde Fillmore as Senator Noonan
Is The More the Merrier good?
Most people think so. 82% audience score, estimated from 103 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 94%.
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. Wikipedia ↗
