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In this film, Cary Grant plays a widowed father who packs himself and his spoiled kiddies off to a ramshackle houseboat. Enter Sophia Loren, who is attempting to break loose from her tyrannical father's iron grip. She hires on as Grant's housekeeper, and the two soon fall in love.
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Houseboat (1958)
110 min
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.