Producer/director Melvin Frank struck box-office gold when he teamed George Segal with Glenda Jackson in A Touch of Class. Segal plays a married insurance executive who can't seem to avoid bumping into divorced fashion designer Glenda Jackson wherever he goes. Finally bowing to the Inevitable, Segal and Jackson fall in love. He suggests a romantic rendezvous in Spain...but nothing, absolutely nothing, goes as planned. A comedy of errors ending on an unexpected note of pathos, A Touch of Class was nominated for four Academy Awards, and earned Glenda Jackson a "Best Actress" Oscar. — Hal Erickson

AMG Review: Accomplished British actress Glenda Jackson showed a surprising gift for romantic comedy in this 1973 sleeper, for which she won her second Best Actress Oscar in four years. George Segal plays an American insurance adjuster who decides to commit adultery with a British dress designer but finds that his plans for a quick affair are complicated by entanglements of the heart. Director Melvin Frank helped write the script with Jack Rose, and it played right on the edge of the era's more permissive sensibilities. The acting is first-rate and gives the story a scintillating edge that goes beyond its clever dialogue. Jackson and Segal show that on-screen chemistry depends less on glamour than on timing and expression. As a light sex farce, A Touch of Class contained more daring and dignity than its myriad imitators; it was nominated for 5 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. — Michael Betzold