Inside the Flood Apartment (Who's Got the Action?)

Oh boy, do I have a wonderful mid-century apartment for us today!

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It's the Flood apartment from Who's Got the Action? The Floods are played by Lana Turner and Dean Martin, and their apartment is located in the Talmage building in Los Angeles. Maybe unique for the time(?), the scenes were actually filmed inside the building instead of a soundstage. 

Who's Got the Action? is all about a successful lawyer with a gambling addiction and a writer wife who is sick and tired of the lying and the gambling. She schemes to become his new, secret bookie, rack up an exorbitant debt and the cost will terrify her husband into giving up gambling. 

Of course, life doesn't go the way she expects it to: Dean Martin keeps winning and eventually brings in some of his legal friends, and Lana Turner becomes a hot bookie who draws the ire of a local gangster played by Walter Matthau, who wants to find out who's getting in on the action. 

Here's the exterior of the Talmage building in Los Angeles. Very swank! 

And here's the master bedroom with the powder blues and pale pinks. 

And here's the chic living room area, with a view of the balcony behind her. 

A pale pink typewriter! And a fish tank. 

I love the blue accents throughout the apartment, especially the fireplace mantle. 

A closer look at the entryway, and the fish tank, reveals pale pink accents as well. 

The Floods collect vases, which...sure? I love the teak furniture and the exposed brick. 

Here's a better glimpse of the bedroom. Look at that divine pale pink headboard! 

A view from the balcony sitting area into the living room. 

And the chic little library nook off to the side of the main room. 

Gimme that desk set up!

Here's another glimpse of the fireplace area (and Nita Talbot, who plays the gangter's moll who ends up helping the Floods out of their predicament) with even more decorative vases and blue accents. 

A peekaboo into the kitchen area!

And another angle into the bedroom showing the vanity area, and the large photo of Dino. 

I'm obsessed with the bathroom; love the tiling!

And here's the kitchen with the in-wall double oven. I'd love to have one in my dream house!

Who's Got the Action? is such a fun movie, I definitely recommend you watch it if you can find it!

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I took all the screencaps in this post.

Read the Apartment Therapy posts for Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Ladies Man, Bachelor in Paradise, Pillow Talk, Any Wednesday, The Thrill of It All, Critic's Choice, Gidget, Boys' Night Out, If a Man Answers, The Best of Everything, The Long, Long Trailer, Duchess of Idaho, Lover Come Back, That Touch of Mink, It Happened to Jane, Thrill of a Romance, Send Me No Flowers, Bells Are Ringing, and Susan Slept Here!