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Bob's On The Road To Paternity!
Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arnold's 1964 comedy also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Sterling, John McGiver and Lilo Pulver.
A Global Affair
1964 Directed by Jack Arnold
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Papa play-boy, Staatsaffären, Un biberón en la ONU, Papa playboy, I guai di papà, Большое дело
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10 Apr 1964
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Germany
10 Apr 1964
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30 Jan 1964
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In this MGM comedy has Bob Hope as an United Nation employee who assembles data...and covertly becomes a surrogate father of an abandoned baby girl, partly due to his radio speech on the UN advocacies on helping and protecting children.
This had many funny scenes with Hope trying to conceal and tend to the baby, while being pursued by many attractive female UN representatives of various countries, trying to persuade him their country would have the best interest for the child.Yvonne De Carlo who shows up 2/3 in..represents Spain, is looking good here, as she has Hope join her in a rigorous flamenco dance...and even Russia takes a personal interest in the child and sends a blonde representative Lilo Pulver to check…
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A bachelor stuck taking care of a baby is nothing new - that concept is almost a genre unto itself - but Bob Hope brings his witty one-liners and injects a healthy dose of his brand of humour to the table and brings it up a notch, and the film also has some fun political satire with all the nations of the world vying for "ownership" of the baby. Of course, there's also a romantic element and that's about as standard as you get but Michèle Mercier and Hope have great screen chemistry and keep the plot's "cute" moments alive and fresh.
Overall, A Global Affair offers a blend of comedy, romance, and cultural exploration and while not a cinematic…
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Jack Arnold’s comedy. As a worker at the United Nations building in New York City, a man finds himself looking after a baby deserted at the UN. Starring Bob Hope and Yvonne De Carlo.
The story concerns a United Nations officer (Bob Hope) who is trapped in a rut when he discovers an abandoned toddler at the office. Now he is forced to look for the mother and it’s hard with lots and lots of ladies claiming to be the owner of the baby.
Bob Hope gives an okay performance in his role as Frank Larrimore, the United Nations officer whose life is going to take a turn, resulting in him getting more than he bargained for.
Elsewhere, Michele Mercier…
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Pretty pointless Bob Hope vehicle about a UN official who finds an abandoned baby and then a bunch of hot women from different countries all want to adopt her. The TCM description sounded way more entertaining than it was.
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Bob Hope playing a computer expert for the UN, back when computers took up an entire room, had some potential with him using it to look up mundane things, but this aspect of the character is not explored. Instead he is a bachelor who gets stuck taking care of an abandoned baby, with all the usual gags involving this oft-used concept. For this late in Hope's career, it's a cute, disarming little movie -- a relaxing and pleasant experience. Hope, as usual, is delightful.
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As an employee at the United Nations building in New York City, Bob Hope finds himself in charge of an infant abandoned at the UN.
The original idea notwithstanding this is a pedestrian and quite unfunny comedy. -
before someone (sarah) accuses me of being a secret bob fan please look at the cast of WOMEN
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Really straining the limits of objective rating here to give this a full four stars because I probably like this movie more than anyone else in the world
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Bob Hope still has a great comic delivery, but this film about a UN employee given charge of a baby found in the building is not his strongest material. The film in which female UN employees try to claim the child for their countries is repetitious.