In the 1950's romantic comedy Houseboat, viewers can see stars Cary Grant and Sophia Loren fall in love amidst some of DC's most famous landmarks.

It’s not exactly All the President’s Men or Absolute Power, but Cary Grant and Sophia Loren starred in a minor DC romantic comedy classic filmed around DC the year before its 1958 release. Houseboat has a labyrinthian plot involving a widower with three children who works as a State Department operative (Grant) and the daughter of a famous Italian conductor (Loren). Locations included the Tidal Basin, Fort Washington Marina, Glen Echo Park, the former Continental Hotel on Capitol Hill and Mount Vernon, where the home in the movie’s opening scene is located. Washingtonians always make sport of noting Hollywood’s miscues when it comes to representing DC locales on film (we’re looking at you, Kevin Costner, ducking into a Georgetown subway to avoid the bad guys in No Way Out), and the director of Houseboat, Melville Shavelson, also didn’t let the city’s landmarks get in the way of a good story. Grant’s and Loren’s characters eventually marry—well, after she accepts a position as the family’s maid on a leaky houseboat—and DC, presented in Technicolor and VistaVision, looks as likely a place as any for two people to fall in love.