A Global Affair is a 1964 American comedy film directed by Jack Arnold and starring Bob Hope, Michèle Mercier, Yvonne De Carlo and Elga Andersen.

A baby is abandoned at the United Nations headquarters in New York by a mother who heard the UN's Frank Larrimore speak on behalf of children's rights on a radio show.

[2] The production of A Global Affair was fraught with conflicts involving director Jack Arnold, Bob Hope and producer Hall Bartlett.

Such films as Bachelor in Paradise (1961), Call Me Bwana (1963) and A Global Affair buried Hope's one-time reputation as a reliable movie laugh-maker.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Howard Thompson wrote: "A Global Affair" ... holds together disarmingly as the ambassadors woo the child in the hero's bachelor apartment.

Just in time, under Jack Arnold's limp direction, the picture is yanked back to the United Nations for Mr. Hope's climactic plea for world unity, symbolized by the child—and what a doll!

"[12] In The Boston Globe, reviewer Margery Adams remarked: "Most of the plot is ridiculous, although I'll have to admit the sight of maturing Mr. Hope coddling a blonde alert baby is rather affecting.