Who's Minding the Store? (1963) on Netflix
Norman Phiffier walks dogs and is engaged to Barbara Tuttle, who keeps her family's department store fortune a secret. Her mother hires Norman at the store, hoping the work will humiliate him.
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Barbara Tuttle is an heiress to the Tuttle Department Store fortune, and she has not told her fiancé. Norman Phiffier works as a dog walker, and he is a proud man who will not marry until he can buy a home for them. Barbara's mother, Phoebe Tuttle, thinks Norman is beneath her daughter and wants the engagement broken. She arranges for him to be hired at one of her stores, where the manager, Quimby, is directed to hand him a series of impossible and outrageous tasks. She hopes the frustration will make Norman quit and show Barbara that he is worthless. Norman becomes more driven instead, and he befriends John Tuttle at the store without either man suspecting who the other is.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
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- The scene in which Fritz Feld feeds Jerry Lewis a delicacy of fried ants used genuine fried ants, and Lewis did not learn this until after the scene had been shot.
- Jill St. John, who played Barbara Tuttle opposite Jerry Lewis, said that making the film was an extremely unhappy and disappointing experience, and that one should not confuse the artist with the man.
- The film's "The Typewriter" sequence became a regular part of Jerry Lewis's live stage repertoire, and he performed it frequently while hosting the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.
