Love Is a Ball (UK title: All This And Money Too; also known as The Grand Duke and Mr. Pimm) is a 1963 romantic comedy film directed by David Swift and starring Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, and Charles Boyer.

[2] Etienne Pimm has an unusual way of making a living: he arranges for impoverished European aristocrats to marry unsuspecting rich people.

Pimm and his assistant Janine begin grooming the penniless Grand Duke Gaspard Ducluzeau for Milly by hiring three men.

As their target fancies herself a race car driver, Pimm recruits John Lathrop Davis, a (retired) champion many times over, to instruct Gaspard in the finer points of competitive driving.

Pimm "accidentally" meets Milly's uncle and guardian, Dr. Christian Gump (a cultured gourmet) and invites him to a dinner prepared by Zoltan.

When an errant polo ball struck by Gaspard breaks Priory's arm, a reluctant Davis takes his place.

Davis is openly contemptuous of Milly's unrealistic plan to compete in the International Grand Prix, clashing repeatedly with his spoiled employer.

[13] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Connoisseurs of plutocratic vulgarity will relish much of this romantic extravaganza, from a chef's creation iced to look like an insurance office, and champagne sucked from toothbrush bristles, to an anthology of the Riviera's most hideously opulent interiors.

Surpassing these is Pimm's lakeside love-nest, booby-trapped with massive erotic statuary, and as elegant of décor as a Farouk palace.

To do justice to the architectural and other ironies, Edmond Séchan's photography assures compositions and colour quality of admirable standard.

As for the humans, Hope Lange combines the looks, shape, charm, and rare comedienne's ability to carry off the role of a man-eating tomboy millionairess with a nice line in sadism for chaste chauffeurs – "Ever waxed a Bentley by moonlight?".

Ricardo Montalban's scenes go for little; the verbal wit is not up to the level of the visual felicities; there is some gear-crashing editing; Michel Legrand's score tries too hard; certainly the film is too long.

"[2] He found it "predictable nearly every step of the way" and "laboriously arch in tone, broadly played in general and directed with slapdash aimlessness by Mr.

He mentioned the "determined, good-natured attitude of a game cast headed by Glenn Ford, Hope Lange and Charles Boyer", and in particular found Montalban and Jacobsson "entirely disarming.