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Plot summary
Out of work in New York, Cathy Timberlake is collecting her unemployment check when office clerk Beasley makes unwanted advances. On her way to a job interview, a Rolls-Royce splashes mud over her dress, and the passenger is wealthy businessman Philip Shayne. He wants to make up for it, and the two are strongly drawn to each other. Philip proposes an affair, but Cathy is holding out for marriage. Her roommate Connie urges her to end things with him, convinced he is only out for seduction, while Philip's associate Roger believes Cathy is what his boss needs. Philip wines and dines her repeatedly, and their different expectations keep colliding.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about That Touch of Mink (1962)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Cary Grant was a big fan of The Honeymooners, and of Audrey Meadows in particular, and he was the one responsible for getting her the part of Connie.
- When Doris Day's character is shown a list of potential husbands, one of the names on it is Rock Hudson, her co-star in Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back and Send Me No Flowers. Hudson had in fact expected to be cast as Philip, but director Delbert Mann wanted Cary Grant.
- A July 1961 Daily Variety item reported that Cary Grant had “telephoned the French automotive company, Citroën, to order a new car for use in the film.” The factory reportedly shipped the display model to the studio without hesitation, and the new roadster, the Citroën DS 19 Décapotable Usine, took key publicity from it.
- It was the fastest film to gross over $1,000,000 at a single theater, reaching that milestone in five weeks at Radio City Music Hall in New York, where it stayed another five weeks and set a theater record gross of $1.9 million.
- In his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole has his protagonist Ignatius J. Reilly see the film, unnamed but with its plotline clearly identified, at his local theater in New Orleans, railing about it to his fellow cinemagoers.
