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The April Fools is a 1969 American romantic comedy film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve.

The April Fools
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Stuart Rosenberg
Written by	Hal Dresner
Produced by	Gordon Carroll
Starring	Jack Lemmon Catherine Deneuve Peter Lawford Jack Weston Myrna Loy Charles Boyer
Cinematography	Michel Hugo
Edited by	Bob Wyman
Music by	Marvin Hamlisch
Production company	Cinema Center Films
Distributed by	National General Pictures
Release date	May 28, 1969 (1969-05-28)
Running time	95 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$4.5 million (US/ Canada rentals)[1]

Plot

Howard Brubaker (Lemmon) is married to Phyllis (Sally Kellerman), who doesn't love him. Catherine (Deneuve) is the stunning wife of an equally uncaring husband, Howard's philandering boss, Ted Gunther (Peter Lawford).

The evening of the day Ted promotes Howard, Howard attends Ted's house party where Ted urges him to pick up an available woman there and proceeds to show him how. Howard reluctantly tries it on Catherine, who instantly accepts. The two leave the party and go out for a little adventure on the town. Ted is oblivious, as he is concentrating on other women at the party.

The two find their marriages are loveless as they discover more about each other that night and decide to run away together the next evening. But Ted doesn't realize the other man is Howard until Howard and Catherine are about to board the plane to Paris.

Cast

Actor	Role
Jack Lemmon	Howard Brubaker
Catherine Deneuve	Catherine Gunther
Peter Lawford	Ted Gunther
Myrna Loy	Grace Greenlaw
Charles Boyer	Andre Greenlaw
Jack Weston	Potter Shrader
Sally Kellerman	Phyllis Brubaker
Gary Dubin	Stanley Brubaker
Melinda Dillon	Leslie Hopkins
Kenneth Mars	Les Hopkins
David Doyle	Orlow P. Walters
Susan Barrett	Singer
Dee Gardner	Naomi Jackson
Harvey Korman	Matt Benson
Lisa Todd	Safari Club Waitress

Production

The female lead was originally going to be played by Shirley MacLaine but she was not available due to commitments on Sweet Charity and campaigning for Robert F. Kennedy. Catherine Deneuve was cast instead.[2]

Reception

The New York Times review said, "The April Fools, written by Hal Dresner and directed by Stuart Rosenberg, manipulates its stereotypes with elegance and style. ... The best things in the movie, however, are the extraordinarily good supporting performances by Peter Lawford (Miss Deneuve's husband), Jack Weston, Harvey Korman, Sally Kellerman, and by two stars who invented movie elegance almost 30 years ago, Charles Boyer and Myrna Loy."[3]

Paperback novelization

Published slightly in advance of the film's release (as was the usual custom of the era), a paperback screenplay novelization by the ubiquitous and gifted tie-in scribe William Johnston was issued by Popular Library.

Soundtrack

The April Fools
Performed by Dionne Warwick
w. Hal David m. Burt Bacharach

I Say a Little Prayer
w. Hal David m. Burt Bacharach

DVD

The April Fools was released to DVD by CBS Home Entertainment through Paramount Home Media Distribution on January 28, 2014 as a Region 1 Widescreen DVD.

See also

• List of American films of 1969

References

External links

• The April Fools at IMDb 
• The April Fools at AllMovie
• The April Fools at Rotten Tomatoes
• The April Fools at the American Film Institute Catalog
• The April Fools at the TCM Movie Database

На других языках

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[de] Ein Frosch in Manhattan

Ein Frosch in Manhattan, auch bekannt als Darling, laß dich scheiden (Originaltitel: The April Fools), ist eine US-amerikanische Filmkomödie aus dem Jahr 1969 mit Jack Lemmon und Catherine Deneuve in den Hauptrollen.

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- [en] The April Fools

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[it] Sento che mi sta succedendo qualcosa

Sento che mi sta succedendo qualcosa (The April Fools) è un film del 1969 diretto da Stuart Rosenberg.

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