Good Neighbor Sam (1964) on Netflix
Sam Bissell works in advertising in San Francisco, where a new client demands a family man on the account. He poses as his neighbor Janet's husband so she can claim an inheritance.
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Plot summary
Sam Bissell has held a low-level job in a San Francisco advertising agency for six years. Then a dairy tycoon named Simon Nurdlinger tells the agency he will sign only if an upstanding family man handles his account, and Sam, a suburban husband with two young daughters, is the only employee who fits. Sam and his wife Minerva celebrate with Janet Lagerlof, an old friend of Minerva's and their new next-door neighbor, who has divorced Howard Ebbets and come into a fifteen million dollar inheritance. The will requires that she be happily married. California does not make a divorce final for a year, and only six months have passed, so Janet keeps the divorce quiet from her cousins Irene and Jack, who inherit if she is disqualified. When Irene and Jack show up unannounced, Janet presents Sam as her husband.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Good Neighbor Sam was the motion picture debut of screenwriters James Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum, who had already written many American television sitcoms, among them The Andy Griffith Show and Mister Peepers.
- Everett Greenbaum, one of the film's two screenwriters, also created the mobile sculpture that appears in the film.
