"Ella Peterson (Judy Holliday) is a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator who tries to improve the lives of her clients by passing along bits of information she hears from other clients. She falls in love with one of her clients, the playwright Jeffrey Moss (Dean Martin), and is determined to meet him. The trouble is, on the phone to him, she always pretends to be an old woman whom he calls 'Mom.'"While the basic premise of the movie (one person helps other people unbeknownst to them) is timeless, the gimic, a telephone answering service operator, is ancient. 1960 may be before answering machines were in use, but seeing Judy Holliday plug and unplug cables into a switchboard to answer phone calls seems so 1930s or 1940s. I guess we won't be seeing this movie remade by Hollywood.
For all the old musicals I have watched in my life I didn't think there were many left to watch, or at least any good ones left to watch. But this one showed up on TV last night. Not a great movie, but it is charming in an old dated way when one is in the mood for a 50s/60s type of musical comedy.
More of my comments on the movie can be found here at the Internet Movie Database site.
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