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The World of Henry Orient (1964) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by George Roy Hill and produced by Jerome Hellman.

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By The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 13, 2021 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

In this publicity photo for The World of Henry Orient ( 1964 ), pianist Henry Orient ( Peter Sellars ) is surrounded by his two greatest fans Val and Gil ( Tippy Walker and Marrie Spaeth ) and is not pleased at all about it! Especially since he thinks they are agents sent by his mistress's husband t... Read full article

The World of Henry Orient (1964)

By Beatrice on Mar 28, 2018 From Flickers in Time

The World of Henry Orient Directed by George Roy Hill Written by Nora Johnson and Nunnally Johnson from Nora Johnson’s novel 1964/USA Pan Arts Repeat viewing/Amazon Instant I first saw this in the theater as a pre-teen.  This coming-of-age comedy holds up well into adulthood. Thirteen-year... Read full article

The World of Henry Orient (1964)

on Sep 9, 2015 From Journeys in Classic Film

It’s not often a film focusing on teenagers doesn’t devolve into two young girls bickering about finding romance. Romance blooms in George Roy Hill’s The World of Henry Orient, but it’s that heady, semi-obsessive first crush on an impossible man that nearly every teenage girl... Read full article

The World of Henry Orient (1964) screening at the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival

By Raquel Stecher on May 8, 2014 From Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog

The line to get into The World of Henry Orient (1964) screening at the TCM Classic Film Festival was a bit hectic but well worth the temporary chaos. I knew nothing about the film except that Paula Prentiss was in it and that she would be at the screening. It was an added bonus that actress Merrie S... Read full article

The World of Henry Orient (1964) screening at the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival

By Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001 From Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog

The line to get into The World of Henry Orient (1964) screening at the TCM Classic Film Festival was a bit hectic but well worth the temporary chaos. I knew nothing about the film except that Paula Prentiss was in it and that she would be at the screening. It was an added bonus that actress Merrie S... Read full article

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The World of Henry Orient Quotes:

Sidney: Don't you understand what I'm trying to tell you, Henry? You're in trouble. If I keep telling them you're at the dentist's, they're going to want to count your teeth.
Stella Dunnworthy: This is exactly the sort of thing George would think of, little girl detectives that no one would suspect.
[repeated line]
Marian Gilbert: Golly Moses!
[Describing his encounter with "Gil" and "Val", during an intimate moment with Mrs. Dunnworthy]
Henry Orient: ...And then two small bladders came out of their mouths. And just when she was beginning to hum, too.
[defending her friendship with Val]
Marian Gilbert: Valerie Boyd's just about the most linquent girl I've ever met in my whole life!
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The World of Henry Orient Facts
The pianist's unusual surname - Orient - was inspired by real-life concert pianist Oscar Levant. The word "levant" means orient in French.
In 1967, a musical version "Henry, Sweet Henry" opened on Broadway. Both the film and the musical adaptation were directed by George Roy Hill.
The phone Peter Sellers uses in his bedroom is called a Ericofon, made by L. M. Ericsson of Sweden. This is one of the very few foreign phones allowed in the US at the time of filming by the then telephone company, Bell Telephone, which held a monopoly on both telephone service and telephone equipment in the US. Bell Telephone felt so threatened by the unique European design (and possible mass intrusion into "their" telephone network) that they designed the "Trimline" phone as a countermeasure.
Shot from June to October 1963.
David Wayne, Robert Preston, Gig Young, Rex Harrison, Tony Randall, and Dick Van Dyke, were all sought for the role of Henry Orient.
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