There’s a Girl in My Soup (1970)

• Year: 1970
• Released: 15 Dec 1970
• Country: United Kingdom
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 win & 2 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066449/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/theres_a_girl_in_my_soup
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, French
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Runtime: 96 min
• Writer: Terence Frisby, Peter Kortner
• Director: Roy Boulting
• Cast: Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Tony Britton
• Keywords: love, london, england, france, celebrity, chef,

	5.7/10
	37% – Audience

There’s a Girl in My Soup Storyline

41-year-old Robert Danvers is renowned for being an egomaniacal celebrity chef and culinary critic who hosts his own London-based gourmet-food television show, “Good Taste”. But he’s equally renowned for being a womanizing cad who has a revolving door of women. He’s met his match Marion, a 19-year-old American who picks him up without knowing who he is or anything about his public or personal life–but she seems to know what he’s all about. She admits that she wants to stay one step ahead of him in their sexual game. Despite their bumpy start–or perhaps because of it–she moves into his flat a day after knowing him and accompanies him on a business trip to the south of France. This being a relationship totally foreign to both, can it last, or will it last because it is different than all the previous casual relationships they’ve had up until now?

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Good fun, but of its time

There’s A Girl In My Soup is the 1970 film version of a stage play. Peter Sellers plays a louche middle-aged womanising TV personality, totally convinced of his own irresistibility. Goldie Hawn, in her second featured film appearance (after her Best Supporting Actress Oscar in Cactus Flower made it clear that the ditzy blonde from Laugh-In was, after all, just a performance) plays a young American who is singularly unimpressed, and immune to his advances. He has to offer her something genuine of himself before she will embark on an affair: he then falls for her, an experience for which he is totally unprepared.

While this movie is far from perfect, there is much to enjoy. Both Sellers and Hawn give of their best, there is some sparkling dialogue, and there were some good songs by Mike D’Abo on the soundtrack.

Above everything, though, this is a very 1970 film, in terms of both its look and feel, and also the attitudes portrayed.

Ewwww….hairy back, hairy back!

While I have enjoyed Peter Sellers in a lot of films, this one really pulled me out of the mood when you see him early in the film without a shirt—and with COPIOUS amounts of back hair. While this might not be a problem in many films (or a boon if you are in one of the “Planet of the Apes” movies), here it made no sense, as Sellers was supposed to be a Lothario who attracts women like flies. I would think many women would just yell “Ewwww!!!” when they saw him shirtless and take them completely out of the mood. Sorry about the little diatribe….but a bit of Nair would have really helped him make the role more convincing.

The film finds Sellers playing an upper-class man who has become famous as a TV chef–sort of like Graham Kerr in the 1960s. However, his greatest joy is not food but women–and his needs are very, very, very compulsive. Again and again, he scores but doesn’t allow any of these women to get close to him. And, women fall for his lines one after another. However, when he meets a very young Goldie Hawn, he’s finally met a woman who can see right through him–and he finds this very disarming. For once, he is not in control and she seems relatively immune to his wiles–anticipating his every move. Surprisingly, he soon finds himself actually falling for this lady…something he’s never let himself do in the past. And, he even contemplates marrying her! But, while she likes him a lot…marriage just isn’t in her plans.

Despite its adult theme and cavalier attitude towards sex, I was intrigued by this film–mostly because it defies the usual stereotypes. It has very interesting characters as well–an interesting character study indeed–even if the ending seemed a tad abrupt.

By the way, as the subject of this film is pretty adult, so is the film overall. There’s a decent amount of nudity and you might want to consider this before watching or showing it to your mother-in-law or priest!

she’s great, he’s the worst

Robert Danvers (Peter Sellers) is a womanizing TV food critic. He picks up Marion (Goldie Hawn) from a party and brings her home. She’s willing to sleep with him but seems immune to his charms.

Normally, the age difference is a killer. Goldie has a few of these where her natural charms make her great and the guy is often a creep. In this case, she is not a helpless naive little girl. She is sexually liberated and self-confident. Robert is a creep but there is hope for him. I do wish that she has a more humanizing effect on him in the end. I don’t like the ending. The best ending is for her to go off on her own to get her independence while he pines for what he had with her. Nobody changes for the better and that’s not a good thing for this movie.