The April Fools
He has a wife. She has a husband. With so much in common they just have to fall in love.
5.9
42 votes
May 28, 1969
1h 35m
Drama
Comedy
Romance
Overview
Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married — to the boss. They spend an innocent night in New York becoming more and more attracted to each other, so that when Catherine announces she intends to leave her husband and return to Paris, Howard asks to go along too.
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Cast
Jack Lemmon
Howard Brubaker
Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Gunther
Peter Lawford
Ted Gunther
Jack Weston
Potter Shrader
Myrna Loy
Grace Greenlaw
Charles Boyer
Andre Greenlaw
Kenneth Mars
Les Hopkins
Melinda Dillon
Leslie Hopkins
Harvey Korman
Matt Benson
Sally Kellerman
Phyllis BrubakerG
Gary Dubin
Stanley BrubakerJ
Janice Carroll
Mimsy ShraderD
Dee Gardner
Naomi Jackson
David Doyle
Orlow P. WaltersS
Susan Barrett
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