Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! is a 1966 DeLuxe Color American comedy film starring Bob Hope and Elke Sommer. This film marked the first of three film collaborations for Hope and comedian Phyllis Diller, and was followed by Eight on the Lam in 1967 and The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell in 1968.

Plot

A gorgeous French actress named Didi has become more famous for commercials involving bubble baths than for acting. Fed up with the situation, she winds up running away for a while to Oregon, where she encounters a middle-aged married realtor who agrees to secretly assist her and thereby becomes enmeshed in various complications when the realtor and his wacky housekeeper try to hide her from being found by his wife and by the public.

Cast

Bob Hope as Tom Meade
Elke Sommer as Didi
Phyllis Diller as Lily
Cesare Danova as Pepe Pepponi
Marjorie Lord as Mrs. Martha Meade
Kelly Thordsen as Detective Shawn Regan
Benny Baker as Detective Lt. Schwartz
Terry Burnham as Doris Meade
Joyce Jameson as Telephone operator
Harry von Zell as Newscaster / Off-Screen Narrator
Kevin Burchett as Larry Meade
Keith Taylor as Plympton

Production

The film was Bob Hope's second with Edward Small. Filming started in October 1965. It marked Phyllis Diller's film debut as a lead – she signed for five more pictures with Hope.

Reception

With Bob Hope's film career on the downswing by the '60s, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! was critically panned and compared to a "90-minute TV sitcom". The critic for The New York Times drew parallels with Up in Mabel's Room which Edward Small had made twenty years previously. Reviews were poor. However it performed well at the box office. Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! was listed in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.