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There’s a Girl in My Soup movie storyline. 41-year-old Robert Danvers is renowned for being an egomaniacal celebrity chef and culinary critic who hosts his own London-based gourmet-food television show, “Good Taste”. But he’s equally renowned for being a womanizing cad who has a revolving door of women. He’s met his match Marion, a 19-year-old American who picks him up without knowing who he is or anything about his public or personal life–but she seems to know what he’s all about.
She admits that she wants to stay one step ahead of him in their sexual game. Despite their bumpy start–or perhaps because of it–she moves into his flat a day after knowing him and accompanies him on a business trip to the south of France. This being a relationship totally foreign to both, can it last, or will it last because it is different than all the previous casual relationships they’ve had up until now?
There’s a Girl in My Soup is a 1970 British romantic comedy film based on the long running stage play, directed by Roy Boulting and starring Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Tony Britton, Ruth Trouncer, Françoise Pascal, Nicky Henson, Geraldine Sherman, Tom Marshall, Diana Dors, Nicola Pagett, Judy Campbell ahd Gabrielle Drake. It was Sellers’ last commercial success for several years.
The film is based on the stage comedy There’s A Girl In My Soup, written by Terence Frisby, produced by Michael Codron, directed by Bob Chetwyn and starring Donald Sinden, Barbara Ferris and Jon Pertwee. It ran for six and a half years in the West End, from 1966 to 1973, including three years at the Globe Theatre (now The Gielgud), breaking records to become London’s longest-running comedy. This record was later broken by No Sex Please, We’re British and then Run for Your Wife.
Film rights were bought in 1967 by Columbia and Nat Cohen. Eventually Mike Frankovich became producer and the Boultings directed. Goldie Hawn signed in January 1969. The movie introduced Christopher Cazenove, who later co-starred on Dynasty, and Nicola Pagett, who played Elizabeth Bellamy on Upstairs, Downstairs. A novelisation of the film, written by Raymond Hitchcock, was published in 1971.
There’s a Girl in My Soup (1970)
Directed by: Roy Boulting
Starring: Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Tony Britton, Ruth Trouncer, Françoise Pascal, Nicky Henson, Geraldine Sherman, Tom Marshall, Diana Dors, Nicola Pagett, Judy Campbell, Gabrielle Drake
Screenplay by: Terence Frisby
Cinematography by: Harry Waxman
Film Editing by: Martin Charles
Costume Design by: Evangeline Harrison
Set Decoration by: Patrick McLoughlin
Art Direction by: John Howell
Music by: Mike D’Abo
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: December 15, 1970 (US)
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