There's a Girl in My Soup

Celebrity chef Robert Danvers, a food and wine connoisseur and middle-aged Lothario, thinks he has women figured out. At a party he meets Marion, a young, sexually liberated woman who, refreshingly, sees something else in him. Their new romance bubbles along smoothly, considering the contrast between sophisticated gourmet and the modish girl. Robert finds himself falling in love permanently, but complications arise when a young musician/linoleum layer reclaims Marion's heart.

There's A Girl in My Soup opened in London on May 30, 1966 at the Golders Green Hippodrome, transferring soon after to the Globe Theatre. The show ran for six and half years, until 1973, becoming the longest-running comedy in the history of the West End. There's A Girl in My Soup opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre on October 18, 1967, starring Gig Young and Barbara Harris. That hit production played for 322 performances. In 1970, Columbia Pircurres released a film adaptation of the play starring Peter Sellars and Goldie Hawn.