The Notorious Landlady

The Notorious Landlady (1962)

Did she...or did she?

An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

Date of release
1962-04-13
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (59)
Runtime
2h 3m
Genres
Comedy, Mystery
Director
Richard Quine

Casting

Interesting facts

The Notorious Landlady is a 1962 American comedy mystery film directed by Richard Quine from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Blake Edwards, based on the 1956 short story "The Notorious Tenant" by Margery Sharp. It stars Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, and Fred Astaire, with Lionel Jeffries and Estelle Winwood. The film follows an American diplomat in London who rents a room from and falls in love with a young woman suspected of murder.

Production

The film was announced in December 1957 with Richard Quine to direct and Jack Lemmon to star opposite Victoria Shaw, and filming was originally scheduled to begin in February 1958. Blake Edwards wrote the first version of the script. Quine recruited writer Larry Gelbart to write a draft, and S. N. Behrman revised it.

Lemmon and Kim Novak had appeared together on screen twice previously, in Phffft (1954) and Bell, Book and Candle (1958). Novak, who had previously been engaged to marry Quine, was paid $600,000. It was her last performance for Columbia after eight years with the studio.

The song "A Foggy Day (in London Town)" by George and Ira Gershwin, which serves as the film's main theme, was introduced in the 1937 Fred Astaire film A Damsel in Distress.

Filming began on May 15, 1961. The opening London scenes were filmed at the Columbia Ranch in Burbank, California. The closing scenes set on the cliffs of Cornwall were filmed at Point Lobos State Natural Reserve in Carmel, California.

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