When the women of America join together on election day and elect a Leslie McCloud as the US President, things get a little awkward. Especially for her husband Thad McCloud. He, as First Hus... Read allWhen the women of America join together on election day and elect a Leslie McCloud as the US President, things get a little awkward. Especially for her husband Thad McCloud. He, as First Husband, must take over the job of The First Lady, in the women's groups and garden parties.When the women of America join together on election day and elect a Leslie McCloud as the US President, things get a little awkward. Especially for her husband Thad McCloud. He, as First Husband, must take over the job of The First Lady, in the women's groups and garden parties.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
- Gloria McCloud
- (as Anna Capri)
- Burlesque Show Spectator
- (uncredited)
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
- School Principal Osgood
- (uncredited)
- Vasiliovich Alexminitch
- (uncredited)
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe car that Valdez picks up before the wild ride with McCloud is a Jaguar D-Type, a popular race car and LeMans contender in the Fifties but obsolete by the time of the film's release in 1964.
- GoofsWhen Mr. Leslie is examining the First Lady's Office in the White House, he reads off the names of the portraits of former First Ladies on the wall. One of them is "Mrs. Andrew Jackson." Actually, Jackson's only wife, Rachel Donelson Jackson, died in December 1828, after the Presidential election that elected her husband to his first term, but before he was officially inaugurated as President, so she never had the title of First Lady. Instead, Emily Donelson, a niece of President Jackson, served as his social hostess while Jackson was in the White House.
- Quotes
Thaddeus McCloud: I'm looking forward to some jolly times when I get to know your buzzers better.
Well, Fred MacMurray and Polly Bergen do okay, as do their two children, Ahna Capri and Ronnie Dapo. Collectively here, they are the McClouds - President Leslie Harrison McCloud, hubby Thad, daughter Gloria and son Peter. But this isn't a very hearty comedy with lots of clever dialog, funny lines and antics. It has just smidgeons of those in a screenplay that might have been much better.
Some of the comedy centers around the feminine versus male trappings for the president's and first lady's settings. Also the office of the first lady in which Thad's two senior lady secretaries who go with the White House, are all to eager to have him continue in the traditions of the first ladies.
Eli Wallach adds some humor as a dictator of an unnamed Central American country. Especially when President Leslie asks First Husband to escort and show him around. Both President Leslie and First Husband Thad score nicely in taking down the blowhard opposition Senator Walsh. Edward Andrews played such parts better than anyone else throughout his career.
Leslie's former roommate and first date of Thad enters the picture. Doris Weaver (played by Arlene Dahl) is the divorced head of her own cosmetics firm. She ever so coyly works on Thad to lure him away from the President. But it doesn't work.
This is a minor comedy for all concerned, but it gives a little look at what it might be like for children moving into the White House. It all ends after a year or two when the President becomes pregnant, and she choose family over politics. Here are some of the best lines from this film.
Gloria McCloud, "Oh, father! As long as I'm going to be miserable, please put me in a private school for girls where I won't see what I'm missing." Thad McCloud, "Gloria, you mother and I decided that you should both continue going to public school. There'll be no special privileges just because you happen to be the president's children." Gloria, "Special privileges. I mean, am I supposed to give up my whole life for my country?"
Doris Weaver, "Do I detect a wounded male ego?" Thad McCloud, "Not wounded - deceased."
Doris Weaver, "Look, Thad, why don't you stop by the house, real soon, for cocktails and a... nice, long chat?" Thad, "Well, thanks, Doris. That, uh, that'll be fine." Doris, "Good." Walking away, "Oh, and, uh, bring the president if you like. Bye."
Leslie McCloud, "Darling, if you'll wait just one minute, I can get into something comfortable." Thad, "The time's a wasting, and I don't trust those two telephones."
That McCloud, "I wouldn't want this to get around, but I love you, madame President."
Raphael Valdez Jr., "Your gestapo drives very carelessly."
Thad McCloud, "Tell me, whatever happened to the President?" Leslie McCloud, "I left her downstairs." Thad, "I never had any luck with her anyway."
Peter McCloud, to school principal, "See how important I am. You better be careful what you say."
Thad McCloud, at Doris Weaver's party, after downing several shot glasses of a new drink to his taste (140-proof green Chartreuse), to the astonishment of the waiters, "I feel as though there were a civil war going on inside me, and both sides are losing."
- SimonJack
- Jan 29, 2022
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- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
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