Good Neighbor Sam 1964  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Swift
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Dorothy Provine, Mike Connors, Louis Nye, Charles(2) Lane, Edward G. Robinson, Anne Seymour, Edward Andrews, Tristram Coffin, Robert Q. Lewis, Joyce Jameson, Linda Watkins, Peter Hobbs, Neil Hamilton
Advertising executive Sam Bissell (Jack Lemmon) is happily married to Minerva (Dorothy Provine) when he helps out his neighbor, Janet (Romy Schneider), by pretending to be her husband so she can inherit $15 million. Janet is married but separated from Howard (Mike Connors) and does not want to share the inheritance with him. Many complications arise when Sam's biggest client, Simon Nurdlinger (Edward G. Robinson), uses Sam and Janet as "the ideal married couple" in an ad campaign and features their pictures on billboards throughout the town.
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 1967  N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: David Swift
Cast: Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee, Anthony "Scooter" Teague, Maureen Arthur, Murray Matheson, Anne Seymour, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Virginia Sale, Kay Reynolds
Based on the Broadway musical comedy, this is the story about window cleaner J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse) who reads a book about getting ahead in business and becomes a vice-president in charge of advertising for a large company by employing his own unique methods for the climb up the corporate ladder.
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Love Is a Ball 1963  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Swift
Cast: Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Charles Boyer, Ricardo Montalban, Telly Savalas, Ruth McDevitt, Ulla Jacobsson, Georgette Anys, John Wood, Andre Luguet
Pimm (Charles Boyer) is a matchmaker who creates romantic unions for those who graduate from his mail-order school.
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 The Parent Trap 1961  N/R, 129 min.
Genre: Family
Director: David Swift
Cast: Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Leo G. Carroll, Joanna Barnes, Cathleen Nesbitt, Ruth McDevitt, Nancy Kulp
Twins Sharon and Susan (both played by Hayley Mills) meet at camp, learn they are sisters, and plot to reunite their divorced parents in this popular Disney film. There were three sequels in the 1980s as well as a remake in 1998.
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Pollyanna 1960 N/R, 133 min.
Genre: Family
Director: David Swift
Cast: Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Karl Malden, Hayley Mills, Nancy Olson, Adolphe Menjou, Donald Crisp, Agnes Moorehead, Kevin Corcoran, James Drury
In this Disney remake of the 1920 film, Hayley Mills plays the role of a young orphan who goes to live with her Aunt Polly (Jane Wyman) and brings happiness to all she touches. Remade (for TV as "Polly") in 1989 and again in 2003.
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Under the Yum Yum Tree 1963 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Swift
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Edie Adams, Imogene Coca, Paul Lynde, Robert Lansing, Bill Bixby, Bill Erwin, Cliff Carnell, Irene Tsu, Joy Harmon, Celeste Yarnall, Lyn Edgington
A young couple, Robin (Carol Lynley) and David (Dean Jones), rent an apartment–not knowing that their landlord, the rakish Hogan (Jack Lemmon) has plans to seduce Robin.
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| 1. Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
2. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
3. Love Is a Ball (1963)
4. The Parent Trap (1961)
5. Pollyanna (1960)
6. Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963)
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