Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)

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 firs...

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 {full_page}

A gorgeous French actress named Didi (Elke Sommer) 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 (Bob Hope) who agrees to secretly assist her and thereby becomes enmeshed in various complications.

The Divine Didi, a European actress known more for her bubble bath scenes than for her acting, decides she has had enough with bubble baths and wants to be taken seriously as an actress. So much so that she runs away during the middle of a scene while filming in Hollywood and winds up in Oregon. While she is staying in a hotel, the operator accidentally connects her with a real estate agent named Tom Meade. She asks Tom to bring her some food and when he does he suggests that she go to his cabin in the woods. She also asks him not to tell anyone where she is because she doesn't want to go back to Hollywood. Now Tom must keep the secret, especially from his wife and from his suspicious housekeeper Millie.

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

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

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.