The More the Merrier

…such movies as Destroyer (1943), The More the Merrier (1943), and Cover Girl (1944). That earned him a chance to helm B-films on his own, and his first solo-directing credit was One Mysterious Night (1944), an installment in the Boston Blackie mystery series. Boetticher made four more films before being…

…as funny (and romantic) was The More the Merrier (1943). Arthur starred as a government worker who patriotically rents half her small home to a retired man (Coburn) to help out during Washington, D.C.’s wartime housing crunch. The man, however, then rents half of his space to a soldier (Joel…