Come Blow Your Horn (film)
Come Blow Your Horn is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin from a screenplay by Norman Lear, based on the 1961 play of the same name by Neil Simon. The film stars Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Molly Picon, Barbara Rush, and Jill St. John. PlotBuddy Baker is bored living with his parents. He goes to the big-city apartment of older brother Alan, who works for their father's artificial-fruit company but never lets business interfere with a good time. A confirmed bachelor, Alan is all too willing to teach his younger brother a few tricks, improve his wardrobe, even introduce him to Peggy, a girl with an apartment upstairs. Alan's steadiest companion is Connie, but even she's running out of patience with his lack of interest in settling down. A jealous husband accuses Alan of running around with his wife and beats him up. Alan begins rethinking his life. He proposes marriage to Connie and then intervenes when he hears that his own parents are contemplating a divorce. Giving up his own ways for good, Alan even turns over his swinging bachelor pad to Buddy. Cast
Norman Lear and Dean Martin both make cameo appearances in this film. ReceptionBox office performanceCome Blow Your Horn was the 15th highest-grossing film of 1963, grossing $12,705,882 in the United States,[1] earning $6 million in domestic rentals.[2] AwardsThe film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, James W. Payne).[3] Sinatra, St. John, Picon and Cobb each earned Golden Globe nominations for their performances.[4] Similarities with Little Rural Riding HoodA similar plot of having a relative go to the big-city to be with a wealthier relative who tries to teach him how to date women would be used in the 1949 Tex Avery cartoon Little Rural Riding Hood.[5] References
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