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Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
	Theatrical release poster.
Directed by	George Marshall
Screenplay by	George Kennett; Albert E. Lewin; Burt Styler
Story by	George Beck
Produced by	Edward Small
Starring	Bob Hope; Elke Sommer; Phyllis Diller; Cesare Danova; Marjorie Lord
Cinematography	Lionel Lindon
Edited by	Grant Whytock
Music by	William "By" Dunham; Richard LaSalle
Production; company	Edward Small Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	June 8, 1966;
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United States
Box office	$4.3 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! is a 1966 DeLuxe Color American comedy film starring Bob Hope and Elke Sommer. This film marked the first of three film collaborations for Hope and comedian Phyllis Diller, and was followed by Eight on the Lam in 1967 and The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell in 1968.^[2]

Plot

A gorgeous French actress named Didi (Elke Sommer) has become more famous for commercials involving bubble baths than for acting. Fed up with the situation, she winds up running away for a while to Oregon, where she encounters a middle-aged married realtor (Bob Hope) who agrees to secretly assist her and thereby becomes enmeshed in various complications when the realtor and his wacky housekeeper try to hide her from being found by his wife and by the public.

Cast

Bob Hope as Tom Meade
Elke Sommer as Didi
Phyllis Diller as Lily
Cesare Danova as Pepe Pepponi
Marjorie Lord as Mrs. Martha Meade
Kelly Thordsen as Detective Shawn Regan
Benny Baker as Detective Lt. Schwartz
Terry Burnham as Doris Meade
Joyce Jameson as Telephone operator
Harry von Zell as Newscaster / Off-Screen Narrator
Kevin Burchett as Larry Meade
Keith Taylor as Plympton

Production

The film was Bob Hope's second with Edward Small.^[3] Filming started in October 1965.^[4] It marked Phyllis Diller's film debut as a lead – she signed for five more pictures with Hope.^[5]

Reception

With Bob Hope's film career on the downswing by the '60s, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! was critically panned and compared to a "90-minute TV sitcom".^[6] The critic for The New York Times drew parallels with Up in Mabel's Room which Edward Small had made twenty years previously.^[7] Reviews were poor.^[8] However it performed well at the box office. Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! was listed in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.

References

^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1966", Variety, January 4, 1967 p 8
^ "Feature Film/TV Episode/Video/TV Movie/TV Special/TV Mini-Series/Documentary/Video Game/Short Film, with Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller (Sorted by Year Ascending)". IMDb.
^ Hopper, Hedda (Aug 2, 1965). "Star of 'Luv' Called Genius". Los Angeles Times. p. d17.
^ Martin, Betty (Aug 11, 1965). "MOVIE CALL SHEET: Train Wreck Derails Film". Los Angeles Times. p. d12.
^ Clifford, Terry. (May 1, 1966). "'Wrong Number' Starts Diller in Films". Chicago Tribune. p. g15.
^ JEFFREY COUCHMAN (May 6, 1979). "Bob Hope: More Than A Gagster?: Bob Hope: More Than A Gagster?". New York Times. p. 85.
^ "Bob Hope and 'A Wrong Number'". New York Times. June 9, 1966. p. 52.
^ Scheuer, Philip K. (15 June 1966). "lke Sommer, Gags Bubble in Hope's 'Wrong Number'". Los Angeles Times. p. d14.