In an incredible coincidence Phffft marked the second featured role for both Jack Lemmon and Kim Novak. It was also the second time that Lemmon was co-starred with Judy Holliday, the two having made such a hit in his debut feature film, It Should Happen To You. Though I don't think it was as funny as the first one, Phffft definitely got it's share of laughs. And Novak refined her ersatz Marilyn Monroe imitation for Harry Cohn and Columbia Studios.
A seemingly happily married couple Lemmon and Holliday both arrive at the conclusion that they seem to be in a rut after 8 years. So just like that they get themselves divorced.
Lemmon moves in with his old navy buddy Jack Carson who is playing his usual screen lout and starts to live the bachelor life again. Judy goes back to Mom who's an interior decorator and she starts dating as well. But as fate would have it, these two keep running into each other and maybe what they had wasn't so bad after all.
Carson's a great pal, setting up Lemmon with Novak so he can finally make a move on Holliday now that she's free. As for Holliday, she's a writer for NBC and does a soap opera. Her first experience in the dating scene is with the leading man in the show, Donald Curtis. He's making his move on her because first and foremost he wants more of the show to himself and is relying on his leading man charm to see that happens. That's quite a comedown for Holliday, Curtis is very good as the actor quite full of himself.
I guess the ultimate lesson of Phffft is don't mess with the fates.
A seemingly happily married couple Lemmon and Holliday both arrive at the conclusion that they seem to be in a rut after 8 years. So just like that they get themselves divorced.
Lemmon moves in with his old navy buddy Jack Carson who is playing his usual screen lout and starts to live the bachelor life again. Judy goes back to Mom who's an interior decorator and she starts dating as well. But as fate would have it, these two keep running into each other and maybe what they had wasn't so bad after all.
Carson's a great pal, setting up Lemmon with Novak so he can finally make a move on Holliday now that she's free. As for Holliday, she's a writer for NBC and does a soap opera. Her first experience in the dating scene is with the leading man in the show, Donald Curtis. He's making his move on her because first and foremost he wants more of the show to himself and is relying on his leading man charm to see that happens. That's quite a comedown for Holliday, Curtis is very good as the actor quite full of himself.
I guess the ultimate lesson of Phffft is don't mess with the fates.