The Moon Is Blue

“From the Sensational Stage Hit That Ran 3 years on Broadway!”

6.2(49)19531h 39m

ComedyRomance

Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.

Director

Otto Preminger

Budget

$0.4M

Cast

William Holden

Donald Gresham

David Niven

David Slater

Maggie McNamara

Patty O'Neill

Tom Tully

Michael O'Neill

Dawn Addams

Cynthia Slater

Fortunio Bonanova

Television Performer

Gregory Ratoff

Taxi Driver

Johannes Heesters

Tourist (uncredited)

Hardy Krüger

Tourist (uncredited)

Johanna Matz

Tourist (uncredited)

Reviews

1 review

John Chard

11y ago

7.0

Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes. The Moon is Blue is one of those olde rom-coms that nowadays has the ability to baffle us as to how it caused such ripples in the movie world back in the day. But ripples it did stir, and all told it's a pretty effective study of manners, etiquette and sexual understandings. Directed by Otto Preminger and based on F. Hugh Herbert's cheeky play of the film's ...