Houseboat (1958) on Netflix
Tom Winters, a widowed lawyer, brings his three children to Washington. When Robert runs off from a concert, Cinzia, the conductor's daughter, brings him home, and Tom hires her as their maid.
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Plot summary
Tom Winters, a lawyer at the State Department, has lived apart from his wife and their three children, David, Elizabeth, and Robert. After his wife dies, he returns from Europe and takes the children to Washington, though they would rather remain near their mother's wealthy parents and their aunt Carolyn in the countryside. At a Boston Symphony concert, Robert interrupts the music with a harmonica, and Cinzia, the conductor's daughter, laughs. Robert slips away afterward, and Cinzia, who has quarreled with her father, finds him and brings him back to Tom, who hires her to look after the children. The house Tom intends for the family in the country is destroyed, and they take up life on a leaky, neglected houseboat.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Houseboat (1958)
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- Betsy Drake wrote the original Houseboat script and Cary Grant meant her to star with him, but he began an affair with Sophia Loren while filming The Pride and the Passion and had the script rewritten for her, with Drake getting no credit.
- The affair between Cary Grant and Sophia Loren ended in bitterness before The Pride and the Passion finished filming, causing problems on the Houseboat set; Grant hoped to resume it, but Loren agreed to marry Carlo Ponti instead.
