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{{Infobox film
| name = There's a Girl in My Soup
| image = There's_A_Girl_in_My_Soup_Poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster by [[Bill Gold]]
| director = [[Roy Boulting]]
| producer = [[John Boulting]] [[M. J. Frankovich|Mike J. Frankovich]]
| writer = [[Terence Frisby]] Peter Kortner (additional dialogue)
| based_on = {{based_on|''[[There's a Girl in My Soup (play)|There's a Girl in My Soup]]''|Terence Frisby}}
| starring = [[Peter Sellers]] [[Goldie Hawn]]
| music = [[Mike D'Abo]]
| cinematography = [[Harry Waxman]]
| editing = Martin Charles
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]]
| released = {{film date|1970|12|14|New York City|1970|12|21|London}}
| runtime = 95 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English French
| budget =
| gross = $4.5 million (rentals)<ref>{{cite magazine|title=All-Time Film Rental Champs|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=7 January 1976|page=48}}</ref>
}}
''''' There's a Girl in My Soup''''' is a 1970 British [[romantic comedy]] film based on the [[There's a Girl in My Soup (play)|stage play of the same name]], directed by [[Roy Boulting]] and starring [[Peter Sellers]] and [[Goldie Hawn]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b80e488|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720045359/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b80e488|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-20|title=There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) – BFI|work=BFI}}</ref><ref name=theatregold/> The film was Sellers' last commercial success until ''[[Return of the Pink Panther]]'' five years later.<ref name=tcmarticle/>

==Plot==
Robert Danvers is a vain, womanizing and wealthy host of a high-profile television cooking show. He meets Marion, a no-nonsense 19-year-old American [[hippie]] who has just broken up with her British rock musician boyfriend Jimmy. After a halting start, they begin an affair, and she accompanies him on a trip to a wine-tasting festival in France, where she embarrasses him by getting extremely drunk, but they enjoy their time together on the coast in the South of France. However, when they return to London, Marion makes up with Jimmy and turns down a desperate proposal of marriage from Danvers. Throughout the film, Danvers' favourite line with women is: "My God, but you're lovely"—which, in the final scene after Marion has gone back to Jimmy and Danvers has made a date with another woman, he says to his own reflection.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/british_comedy_society/|title=The British Comedy Society|first=British Comedy|last=Guide|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref>

==Cast==
* [[Peter Sellers]] as Robert Danvers
* [[Goldie Hawn]] as Marion
* [[Tony Britton]] as Andrew Hunter
* [[Nicky Henson]] as Jimmy
* [[Diana Dors]] as John's wife
* [[Judy Campbell]] as Lady Heather
* [[John Comer]] as John, the porter
* [[Gabrielle Drake]] as Julia
* [[Nicola Pagett]] as Clare
* [[Geraldine Sherman]] as Caroline
* [[Thorley Walters]] as Manager of the Carlton Hotel
* [[Ruth Trouncer]] as Gilly Hunter
* [[Françoise Pascal]] as Paola
* [[Christopher Cazenove]] as Nigel
* [[Raf De La Torre]] as Monsieur Le Guestier

==Production==
The film is based on the stage comedy ''[[There's a Girl in My Soup (play)|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]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&q=there%27s+a+girl+in+my+soup+novel&pg=PA979|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|isbn=9783110951943|last1=Goble|first1=Alan|date=8 September 2011}}</ref> It ran for six and a half years in the [[West End theatre|West End]], from 1966 to 1973, including three years at the [[Gielgud Theatre|Globe Theatre]] (now The Gielgud), breaking records to become London's longest-running comedy.<ref name=theatregold>{{cite web|url=http://www.theatregold-memorabilia.com/product/theres-a-girl-in-my-soup/|title=There's a Girl in my Soup}}</ref><ref name=tcmarticle>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/247942%7C0/There-s-A-Girl-In-My-Soup.html|title=There's A Girl In My Soup|website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref> This record was later broken by ''[[No Sex Please, We're British]]'' and then ''[[Run for Your Wife (play)|Run for Your Wife]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/anthony-marriott-playwright-best-known-for-the-farce-no-sex-please-were-british-9313448.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/anthony-marriott-playwright-best-known-for-the-farce-no-sex-please-were-british-9313448.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Anthony Marriott: Playwright best known for the farce No Sex Please|website=[[Independent.co.uk]] |date=2 May 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/771016/comedy-playwright-Ray-Cooney-85th-birthday-70-years-showbusiness|title=Comedy playwright Ray Cooney celebrates 85th birthday and 70 years in showbusiness|first=Robert|last=Gore-Langton|date=23 February 2017}}</ref>

Film rights were bought in 1967 by Columbia and [[Nat Cohen]].<ref>{{cite news|title=MOVIE CALL SHEET: Garas Loaned to Paramount|author=Martin, Betty|work=Los Angeles Times|date=19 November 1966|via=ProQuest|page=23}}</ref> Eventually Mike Frankovich became producer and the Boultings directed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/448/There-s-a-Girl-in-My-Soup/|title=There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) – Overview|website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref>

Goldie Hawn signed in January 1969.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bradford|first=Jack|title=Hollywood|newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|date=January 13, 1969|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/88635451//}}</ref> The movie introduced [[Christopher Cazenove]], who later co-starred on ''[[Dynasty (1981 TV series)|Dynasty]]'', and [[Nicola Pagett]], who played Elizabeth Bellamy on ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)|Upstairs, Downstairs]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/christopher-cazenove-p11550/filmography|title=Christopher Cazenove – Movies and Filmography|website=AllMovie}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/upstairs-downstairs-series-01-v329110/cast-crew|title=Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 01 (1971) – – Cast and Crew – AllMovie|website=AllMovie}}</ref>

It was one of a series of supporting roles for Diana Dors that revived her career.<ref name="bomb">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|title=A Tale of Two Blondes: Diana Dors and Belinda Lee|date=September 7, 2020|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/a-tale-of-two-blondes-diana-dors-and-belinda-lee/}}</ref>

A novelisation of the film, written by [[Raymond Hitchcock (author)|Raymond Hitchcock]], was published in 1971.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/girl_soup.html|title=There's a Girl in my Soup|work=trashfiction.co.uk}}</ref>

[[Goldie Hawn]] was unhappy that she was coerced into doing a nude scene for this film. "It was my first nude scene in a movie and I didn't want to do it. I was getting out of bed and putting on a coat and the director finessed me into doing it nude. There was absolutely no reason on earth for me to get out of that bed naked. Roy Boulting , the director, told me he'd clear the set and he really played on my insecurities, making me feel that it was my duty as an actress to trust him. I gave in, and, in retrospect, it was the conduct of somebody who didn't want to stomp off the set and be labeled as a bitch."<ref>{{Google books|BXYdAQAAIAAJ|Solid Goldie, p. 65|pagina=65}}</ref>

==Release==
The film had its world premiere at the [[Astor Theatre (New York City)|Astor Theatre]] in New York City on 14 December 1970.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Columbia's 'Soup' Opens Dec. 14 As Astor Benefit|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=2 December 1970|page=6}}</ref>

==Reception==
===Box office===
''There's a Girl in My Soup'' ranked as the seventh most profitable film at the British box office in 1970.<ref>{{cite news|author=Peter Waymark|title=Richard Burton top draw in British cinemas|work=The Times|location=London|date=30 December 1971|page=2|via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|page=269|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NTmrBgAAQBAJ&q=guinness+book+of+box+office+hits+swern+childs&pg=PA268|title=British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure: The Boundaries of Pleasure|first=Sue|last= Harper|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|date= 2011|isbn = 9780748654260}}</ref>

===Critical response===
''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' found the film "a delightful surprise: a rather simple legit sex comedy (by Terence Frisby) transformed into breezy and extremely tasteful screen fun";<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1970/film/reviews/there-s-a-girl-in-my-soup-1200422349/|title=There's a Girl in My Soup|author= Variety Staff |date=1 January 1971 |website= [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] }}</ref> [[Roger Greenspun]] in ''[[The New York Times]]'', dismissed the film as "without illumination or wit or good humor or good sense", and concluded "The only performance to praise is that of Tony Britton, who, as Danvers's very much married publisher and friend, achieves a level of sophisticated pleasantness that actually, suggests comedy. Peter Sellers, on the other hand, is at his least inventive. And Goldie Hawn, who I think might be fun in another part, mostly indulges in bad habits with her too-expressive eyes. In fairness, both Miss Hawn and Mr. Sellers are handicapped by roles in which any attempt at a characterization must seem an imposition."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Greenspun |first=Roger |date=December 16, 1970 |title=Screen: Frisby's 'There's a Girl in My Soup' Opens |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/16/archives/screen-frisbys-theres-a-girl-in-my-soup-opens-miss-hawn-and-sellers.html |journal=[[The New York Times]] |page=54 }}</ref> [[Gene Siskel]] of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' gave the film 1.5 stars out of 4 and wrote that Sellers had "his first decent role in several years" and gave a "completely sympathetic performance", but "no amount of humor is able to wake up the film's tired story premise."<ref>Siskel, Gene (December 29, 1970). "Girl in My Soup". ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''. Section 2, p. 3.</ref> [[Kevin Thomas (film critic)|Kevin Thomas]] of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' was positive, writing "Escapist entertainment it assuredly is, yet Frisby has wisely provided enough quiet moments between his gags to allow his characters to become real enough to care about."<ref>Thomas, Kevin (December 15, 1970). "Sellers, Goldie in 'Soup'". ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''. Part IV, p. 1.</ref> [[Tom Milne]] of ''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' stated that Sellers was "hopelessly miscast" and that the film "would have been much better served by a straight romantic lead."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Milne |first=Tom |date=February 1971 |title=There's a Girl in My Soup |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=38 |issue=445 |page=33 }}</ref>

The website Allmovie comments that "''Soup'' was different in its day, as the heroine of the piece was not a [[Doris Day]]-type eternal virgin, but a sexual being who not only gives herself freely to a man but is upfront and unapologetic about her willingness. The movie has little going for it beyond this premise, and it wanders rather aimlessly, if agreeably, before abruptly resolving its insignificant conflicts."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/theres-a-girl-in-my-soup-v49394/review|title=There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) – Roy Boulting – Review|website=AllMovie}}</ref>

===Awards===
{{Anchor|Awards|Accolades}}
Frisby's script won The [[Writers' Guild of Great Britain]] Award for Best Screenplay in 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://writersguild.org.uk/writers-guild-awards-1970/|title=Writers' Guild Awards 1970 – Writers' Guild of Great Britain}}</ref>

Goldie Hawn was nominated for [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role#1968–1979|Best Actress]] at the [[BAFTA]]'s for her work in this and ''[[Cactus Flower (film)|Cactus Flower]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1971/film/actress|title=BAFTA Awards|website=awards.bafta.org}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0066449}}
* {{TCMDb title|448}}
* {{AllMovie title|49394}}

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