Taking a taxi home, they all discuss what to do to avoid a scandal. Outside the station, Dingle says he lied to protect his reputation. Dingle to tell Pendergast that their living arrangement is purely innocent, he denies knowing them. It comes out during questioning that Joe and Connie live at the same address. Dingle arrives, bringing Pendergast, certain that fireworks will ensue. They identify Dingle as someone who can vouch for Joe's identity and innocence. Joe and Connie are taken to FBI headquarters. Their cooing and billing is interrupted by the arrival of two brusque FBI agents, who have been tipped off that a Japanese spy is living there. She tells him she feels the same way, but refuses to marry him, as they will soon be forced apart when he leaves for Africa. Inside, a sleepless Joe confesses through his bedroom wall that he loves her. The two share their romantic pasts and end up kissing on the front steps. Playing Cupid, Dingle distracts Pendergast in talk about his work, eventually maneuvering him up to his hotel room so that Connie and Joe can be alone together. There, Dingle bumps into Pendergast and Connie, and pretends he is meeting her for the first time, forcing Joe to do the same. When the young neighbor asks what he is doing, Joe flippantly tells him he is a Japanese spy.ĭingle calls Joe to meet him for dinner. Seeking to get a look at Connie's beau, Joe spies on the couple leaving together from the window with a pair of binoculars. At 8:00, Joe and she are ready to leave, but a nosy teenaged neighbor seeks her advice and delays her until Pendergast arrives downstairs. She is reluctant to, but decides she will if Pendergast does not call for her by 8:00 that evening. Joe asks Connie to go to dinner with him. Rather than turn him out to a sleepless night of roaming the streets, Connie allows Joe to remain in the apartment till the next morning.
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Dingle takes full blame for the incident, and retreats to his now-available hotel room. When she finds out, she demands they both leave the next day. One day, Dingle goes too far, reading aloud to Joe from Connie's private diary, including her thoughts about Joe. Joe and Connie talk about his past romances.
He decides in earnest that Joe would be a better match for his landlady. Dingle happens to meet Pendergast at a business luncheon and is put off by what he sees. Connie's mother married for love, not security, and Connie is determined not to repeat that mistake. Joe and Connie are attracted to each other, though she is engaged to pompous bureaucrat Charles J. When Connie finds out about the new arrangement, she orders both men to leave, but is forced to relent because she has already spent the pair's rent. Recognizing him as a high-minded, clean-cut, attractive young man suitable for Connie, Dingle rents him half of his half.
Then Dingle runs into Sergeant Joe Carter, who has no place to stay for several days while waiting to be shipped overseas. He sees an ad for a roommate and talks the reluctant young woman, Connie Milligan, into letting him sublet half of her apartment. Retired millionaire Benjamin Dingle arrives in Washington, DC, as an adviser on the housing shortage, and finds that his hotel suite will not be available for two days. The setting was changed to Tokyo, which had experienced housing shortages due to the 1964 Summer Olympics.
This film was remade in 1966 as Walk, Don't Run starring Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, and Jim Hutton. The film received six nominations at the 16th Academy Awards, among them Best Picture, Best Director for Stevens, Best Actress for Arthur, Best Writing (Original Story), and Best Writing (Screenplay). Set in Washington, D.C., the film presents a comic look at the housing shortage during World War II. The film's script-from Two's a Crowd, an original screenplay by Garson Kanin (uncredited)-was written by Robert Russell, Frank Ross, Richard Flournoy, and Lewis R. The More the Merrier is a 1943 American romantic comedy film directed by George Stevens and starring Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, and Charles Coburn.
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