Taglines: He was hired to Mate them… but not to Date them!
For Love or Money movie storyline. In this romantic comedy, Deke Gentry (Kirk Douglas) is a lawyer who gets an unusual assignment from Chloe Brasher (Thelma Ritter), a wealthy widow, owner of a successful hotel chain, and one of his most prominent clients. Chloe has three daughters, sensible Kate (Mitzi Gaynor), bohemian Jan (Leslie Parrish), and heath food fanatic Bonnie (Julie Newmar), and she wants Deke to find them husbands.
Though Deke protests that matchmaking is outside his traditional area of expertise, Chloe is insistent, and he ends up taking the job. To be sure that he’s going through with it, Chloe assigns her security chief Joe (William Bendix) to keep his eye on Deke. Eventually, Deke fixes up Bonnie with Harvey Wofford (Richard Sargent), a meek IRS agent, and pairs Jan with artist Sam Travis (William Windom), but Kate turns out to be the hardest Brasher sister to marry off, until he throws his own hat into the ring. Richard Sargent would later shorten his first name to Dick and find success on the popular television comedy Bewitched.
For Love or Money is a 1963 romantic comedy film distributed by Universal International, produced by Robert Arthur, directed by Michael Gordon, and starring Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, and Gig Young. It was written by Larry Markes and Michael Morris, and released on August 7, 1963. To date, this remains the last film starring Gaynor before her retirement from acting.
For Love or Money (1963)
Directed by: Michael Gordon
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Thelma Ritter, Gig Young, Julie Newmar, William Bendix, Leslie Parrish, Dick Sargent, Elizabeth MacRae, William Windom, Billy Halop
Screenplay by: Larry Markes, Michael Morris
Production Design by: Lew Leary, Edward Muhl
Cinematography by: Clifford Stine
Film Editing by: Alma Macrorie
Costume Design by: Jean Louis
Set Decoration by: Ruby R. Levitt, John McCarthy Jr.
Art Direction by: Malcolm Brown, Alexander Golitzen
Music by: Frank De Vol
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Universal-International
Release Date: August 7, 1963
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