dieting wife will provide; Doug likes to repair things that are conveniently broken each week (his status-conscious wife does not want their neighbors to see him tinkering about the house); George enjoys talking about himself, but his spouse keeps finishing his sentences. Fred, however, is a different story: he is very attracted to Cathy and, disgusted by his friends' fabricated stories, refuses to use his night. In the end, the wives become suspicious, and on the advice of Fred's mother, Ethel, hire private investigator Ernest Bohannon to find out what is going on. Based on his report, they assume the worst and confront their husbands. All three married men confess that nothing happened, and Cathy reveals that she is just doing research. After getting over the shock, Fred and Cathy become a couple, and the boys' night out is no more; instead, the four couples go out together. Cast Kim Novak as Cathy James Garner as Fred Williams Tony Randall as George Drayton Howard Duff as Doug Jackson Janet Blair as Marge Drayton, George's wife Patti Page as Joanne McIllenny, Howard's wife Jessie Royce Landis as Ethel Williams Oskar Homolka as Dr. Prokosch Howard Morris as Howard McIllenny Anne Jeffreys as Toni Jackson, Doug's wife Zsa Zsa Gabor as boss's girl friend William Bendix as Slattery, a bartender Larry Keating as Mr. Bingham Fred Clark as Ernest Bohannon Jim Backus as Peter Bowers Ruth McDevitt as Beulah Partridge, a busybody Billy Halop as Elevator operator Production The film was a co production between Filmways and Kim Novak's production company, Kimco. It was financed by Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures, the first film he made in the US. They sold the film to MGM. Novak was paid a reported $500,000. It was meant to be the first in a three-picture deal between Kimco and Filmways. Director Michael Gordon later said: That's a picture that really started from a five page dirty joke that the writers sold to the producer. We didn't have censorship ratings at that point; a picture either got the seal of approval or it didn't. I was forced to clarify my ideas about that picture in a way that I think proved constructive. It forced me to recognise that the principal business is to expose certain aspects of human or social folly to ridicule. Gig Young was offered a part but turned it down. Patti Page, cast in