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A wide-eyed Meg Wheeler comes to New York City and takes a job in market research for a large firm. She's also keeping an eye open to meet the right man, her research making her aware that the United States has five million more females than males.
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Upon meeting two clients, the reserved and somewhat stodgy Miles Doughton and his playboy younger brother Evan, it doesn't take long for Meg to realize she's romantically interested in Evan.
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According to MGM records, the film earned $ 2,075,000 in the US and Canada, and $ 1,400,000 elsewhere, turning a profit for the studio of $ 505,000.
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Miles is willing to help. He has seen so many of his brother's conquests come and go that he knows what Evan likes in a girl. Therefore, in a
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releasing two songs from the film, "Ballad for Beatniks" and "The Blues About Manhattan", on an MGM
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MGM bought the rights to the novel in June 1958, before it had been published.
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THOMAS M PRYOR (Nov 6, 1958). "MARCH TO TEAM WITH KIM NOVAK".
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Charles Walters
George Wells
Joe Pasternak
David Niven
Shirley MacLaine
Gig Young
Rod Taylor
Jim Backus
Claire Kelly
John McSweeney Jr.
Jeff Alexander
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
romantic comedy film
Charles Walters
David Niven
Shirley MacLaine
Gig Young
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Winifred Wolfe
Pygmalion
David Niven
Shirley MacLaine
Gig Young
Rod Taylor
Jim Backus
Claire Kelly
Elisabeth Fraser
Dodie Heath
Read Morgan

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