Boys' Night Out (1962) on Netflix
Fred, George, Doug and Howie commute to New York together. Three are married; Fred is not. Fred rents a city apartment for their evenings, and Cathy becomes its housekeeper.
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Plot summary
Fred, George, Doug and Howie commute by train from Greenwich, Connecticut, to New York City. Three of them are married and Fred is a bachelor. Seeing Fred's boss with his mistress sets the friends to talking about an apartment in the city for their evenings. Fred finds a suite and a housekeeper, Cathy, who accepts the job. The married men tell their wives they are taking a weekly class at The New School for Social Research.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Boys' Night Out (1962)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Michael Gordon said Boys' Night Out grew out of a five-page dirty joke the writers sold to the producer, and that since there were no censorship ratings then, a picture either got the seal of approval or it didn't.
- Patti Page, in her third film, wrote that producer Martin Ransohoff wanted her to gain twenty pounds to play a dowdy Southern wife; she took the part anyway, and says she still wasn't "fat enough" for the director and producer, so she dressed appropriately.
- Boys' Night Out was meant to revive Kim Novak's career after the death of Columbia Pictures production head Harry Cohn, but it flopped, losing $262,000 by MGM's records; Novak's career did not benefit, though the film propelled James Garner's forward.
- Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures financed Boys' Night Out, which was the first film Levine made in the United States; the picture was then sold to MGM.
- Gig Young was offered a part in Boys' Night Out but turned it down; the article does not say which role he was offered.
