To fully appreciate The More the Merrier, it is important to know that, during WW2, there was an acute housing shortage in Washington DC. This is why elderly Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn) is obliged to share a tiny DC apartment with pretty Connie Milligan (Jean Arthur) and handsome Joe Carter (Joel McCrea). After nearly two reels of misunderstandings, the trio becomes accustomed to their curious living arrangement. Joe takes a platonic liking to Connie, but she's engaged to stuffy bureaucrat Charles J. Pendergast (Richard Gaines). Sizing up the situation, foxy Benjamin contrives to bring Connie and Joe together, in spite of themselves. Things get dicey when Joe endeavors to complete a top-secret mission for the Air Force, which leads to all sorts of comic complications and misguided remonstrations. Throughout the film, director George Stevens and the four-man screenwriting staff deliberately tweak the noses of the Hays Office, getting by with any number of censorable offenses by deftly and tastefully sidestepping the obvious. Especially potent is the scene in which Joe tries to seduce Connie by talking about everything except seduction: it's also fun to watch Dingle robustly repeat the word "Damn" over and over, getting away with this breach of censorship because he's quoting Admiral "Damn the Torpedoes" Farragut. An Academy Award went to Charles Coburn, while nominations were bestowed upon Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, George Stevens, the screenwriters, and the film itself. The More the Merrier was remade in 1966 as Walk Don't Run, with Cary Grant, Jim Hutton and Samantha Eggar. 　　译文(2): 为了充分理解《越多越好》 ，我们有必要知道，在二战期间，华盛顿特区出现了严重的住房短缺问【资源囤-ZiYuanTun.Com】。这就是为什么上了年纪的本杰明 · 丁格尔(查尔斯 · 科伯恩饰)不得不和漂亮的康妮 · 米利根(让 · 阿瑟饰)和英俊的乔 · 卡特(乔尔 · 麦克雷饰)合租一间小小的华盛顿公寓。经过近两轮的误会，三人组渐渐习惯了他们奇怪的生活安排。乔柏拉图式地喜欢上了康妮，但是她已经和古板的官僚查尔斯 · J · 潘德加斯特(理查德 · 盖恩斯饰)订婚了。狡猾的本杰明估计了一下形势，设法把康妮和乔撮合在一起，尽管他们自己。当乔努力为空军完成一项绝密任务时，事情变得很危险，这导致了各种滑稽的复杂情况和误导的抗议。在整部影片中，导演乔治 · 史蒂文斯(George Stevens)和四名编剧故意扭动海斯办公室的鼻子，巧妙而有品位地回避显而易见的事情，以此应对各种可审查的违规行为。尤其有力的是乔试图通过谈论除了诱惑之外的一切来引诱康妮的场景: 看丁格尔一遍又一遍强烈地重复“该死”这个词，逃脱审查制度的惩罚，因为他引用了海军上将“该死的鱼雷”法拉格特的话，这也很有趣。奥斯卡奖颁给了查尔斯 · 科本，而提名则授予了让 · 阿瑟、乔尔 · 麦克雷、乔治 · 史蒂文斯、编剧和电影本身。1966年，由加里 · 格兰特、吉姆 · 赫顿和萨曼莎 · 埃格尔翻拍的《越多越好》被改编成《步行不要跑》。