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When a blackout shutters her current Broadway play for the night, she returns home unexpectedly and discovers her architect husband Peter ( Patrick O'Neal) being overly attentive to attractive reporter Roberta Lane ( Lola Albright ).
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?: Directed by Hy Averback. With Doris Day, Robert Morse, Terry-Thomas, Patrick O'Neal. During a blackout, a New York executive crosses paths with a Broadway actress and her husband.
- (975)
- Comedy
- Hy Averback
- 1968-06-19
When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, Broadway actress Margaret Garrison and her husband, Peter.
In this, movie, Doris Day drinks half a glass of sleeping medicine. Then Robert Morse wanders into the house and accidentally drinks the other half. Then they fall asleep together, but they're already asleep -- get it?
A New York embezzler (Robert Morse) spends the 1965 blackout with an actress (Doris Day) who is angry at her husband.
- (5)
- Hy Averback
- PG
- Doris Day, Robert Morse, Terry-Thomas
One hour later New York City is plunged into darkness by a power failure. Returning home early, Margaret finds Peter with Roberta in their Manhattan apartment. Furious, she storms out in a jealous rage, drives to their Connecticut cottage, drinks a glass of water containing a sleeping potion, and falls asleep.
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At the time of the famous 1965 New York blackout, Waldo Zane (Robert Morse) – the treasurer of a Manhattan manufacturing company – has just stolen $2 million from the company that robbed him of its presidency.