Ernie Kovacs

Bell Book and Candle -- Delightful spoof on witchcraft, based on John Van Druten's 1950 Broadway play. Kim Novak falls in love with publisher (James Stewart) as her Warlock brother (Jack Lemmon) complicates matters by co-authoring a book on magic with drunken Ernie Kovacs.

A vacuum cleaner salesman is recruited by the British secret service to act as a spy in Havana.

Recruited by the British Secret Service, vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness) becomes an unlikely agent in Cuba. To avoid working while cashing the checks, Wormold spins a web of lies about foreign government secrets. When the locals coppers decode his fake messages, all hell breaks loose in Havana and Wormold must become the spy he dreads in order to survive his own swindle.

A Maine widow becomes a cause celebre when she sues a railroad tycoon over the loss of a valuable shipment of lobsters.

A Capra-esque comedy has Day running a New England lobstery and finding herself up against railroad tycoon Kovacs. When a shipment of expired lobsters arrives, Day decides to take the capitalist to court. With good friend Lemmon, she hires a lawyer, and in the spirit of small-town America, emerges victorious.

Needing money to satisfy his daughter Milly's (Jo Morrow) expensive tastes, Wormold (Alec Guinness), the Havana-based agent for a vacuum cleaner company, allows himself to be recruited into the British Secret Service by Hawthorne (Noel Coward). But, when his phony reports about "recruiting" fictitious agents and "discovering" mysterious installations cause his income and "expenses" to pile up, Wormold's secret service boss "C" (Ralph Richardson) sends Beatrice (Maureen O'Hara) to help him. Though enamored of Milly, Cuban police Captain Segura (Ernie Kovacs) discovers Wormold's plot and threatens to have him deported, making him a target for other spies. Under the circumstances, Wormold and Beatrice gladly head fore London to report to "C", where they are told his chicanery must never be revealed because it would be too scandalous. So, instead, Wormold is given a medal as he and Beatrice decide to marry.

A Capra-esque comedy has Day running a New England lobstery and finding herself up against railroad tycoon Kovacs. When a shipment of expired lobsters arrives, Day decides to take the capitalist to court. With good friend Lemmon, she hires a lawyer, and in the spirit of small-town America, emerges victorious.

In this classic romantic comedy, Jane Osgood (Doris Day), a single mom with two children, is in the live lobster business. But when her first big order for the Marshall Town Country Club turns up dead through no fault of her own, it kills her chances for a successful season. Discovering budget cuts at the railroad are to blame, she turns to George Denham (Jack Lemmon), her longtime admirer and an attorney, to seek compensation from the railroad's tyrannical owner, Harry Foster Malone (Ernie Kovacs). The press has a field day with this modern-day David and Goliath story and the whole country turns to Cape Anne, Maine, to watch as one woman stands up to "the meanest man in the world." It could happen to anyone but IT HAPPENED TO JANE.