The story of the film centres around urban housewife Beverly Boyer (Doris Day) and her husband, a successful gynaecologist and devoted family man, Gerald (James Garner). Beverly is offered the opportunity to star for a television commercial advertising soap. After a shaky start, she gets a contract for $80,000 per year to appear on the weekly TV commercials.
Doris Day | Beverly Boyer | |
James Garner | Dr. Gerald Boyer | |
Arlene Francis | Mrs. Fraleigh | |
Edward Andrews | Gardiner Fraleigh | |
Reginald Owen | Old Tom Fraleigh | |
ZaSu Pitts | Olivia | |
Elliott Reid | Mike Palmer | |
Alice Pearce | Irving's Wife | |
Kym Karath | Maggie Boyer | |
Brian Nash | Andy Boyer | |
Lucy Landau | Mrs. Goethe | |
Paul Hartman | Dr. Taylor | |
Hayden Rorke | Billings | |
Alex Gerry | Stokely | |
Robert Gallagher | Van Camp | |
Anne Newman Bacal | Miss Thompson | |
Burt Mustin | Fraleigh Butler | |
Hedley Mattingly | Sidney | |
Robert Strauss | Chief Truck Driver | |
Maurice Gosfield | Truck Driver | |
William Bramley | Angry Driver | |
Pamela Curran | Spot Checker | |
Herbie Faye | Irving | |
Lenny Kent | Cabbie | |
John Alderman | Mr. Caputo |
Director | Norman Jewison | |
Writer | Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart | |
Producer | Ross Hunter, Martin Melcher | |
Musician | Frank De Vol | |
Photography | Russell Metty |