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How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
6.5
A man who has set up the perfect lifestyle for himself makes the mistake of marrying while drunk... and his fantasies of murder are used against him. Director:Richard QuineWriter:George Axelrod |
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
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Mrs. Ford
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Terry-Thomas | ... |
Charles
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Eddie Mayehoff | ... |
Harold Lampson
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Edna
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Sidney Blackmer | ... |
Judge Blackstone
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Max Showalter | ... |
Tobey Rawlins
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Dr. Bentley
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Harold's Secretary
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Alan Hewitt | ... |
District Attorney
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Barry Kelley | ... |
Club Member in Steam Room
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William Bryant | ... |
Construction Worker
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Charles Bateman | ... |
Club Member in Steam Room
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Edward Faulkner | ... |
Club Member in Steam Room
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Lauren Gilbert | ... |
Men's Club Manager
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Storyline
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a work of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband. When after several months he decides to kill off Bash's wife in the cartoon, his wife misinterprets his intentions and disappears. Which leads the police to charge him with murder. Written by garykmcd
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How to
Your Wife
on the screen, in white letters. Then, the word Murder shows up in red
letters in the space between the two rows of text. See more »
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During a taping of "The Tonight Show", 'Jack Lemmon' told this story. Prior to filming How to Murder Your Wife, co-star Virna Lisi's husband made her promise that she would not be talked into doing a nude scene in her first American film. She assured him that she would not, signed the contract and traveled to Hollywood. While filming the 'revelation' scene, where Lemmon awakes to discover in horror that he got married at the bachelor party, Virna had to disrobe and lay in the bed nude but discreetly covered with a bedsheet. However, it was this day that her husband, an architect, arrived unannounced at the set to surprise his wife. When he walked into the scene, he became very upset. He focused his anger toward her co-star. Lemmon, realizing that discretion was the better part of valor, exited the set at full run with Virna's husband in tow. Running past several sound stages on the MGM lot, he quickly found a garbage dumpster, jumped in and closed the cover. He waited there until security officers found him. See more »Crazy Credits
At first, it only saysHow to
Your Wife
on the screen, in white letters. Then, the word Murder shows up in red
letters in the space between the two rows of text. See more »
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