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Promises..... Promises!

  • 19631963
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  • 1h 15m
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4.9/10
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Jayne Mansfield in Promises..... Promises! (1963)
ComedyDramaRomance
After a drunken spree on a cruise ship, two women discover that they're pregnant, and set out to find who the fathers are.After a drunken spree on a cruise ship, two women discover that they're pregnant, and set out to find who the fathers are.After a drunken spree on a cruise ship, two women discover that they're pregnant, and set out to find who the fathers are.
IMDb RATING
4.9/10
551
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    • King Donovan
    • William Welch(screenplay)
    • Tommy Noonan(screenplay)
    • Edna Sheklow(play)
  • Stars
    • Jayne Mansfield
    • Marie McDonald
    • Tommy Noonan
    • King Donovan
    • William Welch(screenplay)
    • Tommy Noonan(screenplay)
    • Edna Sheklow(play)
  • Stars
    • Jayne Mansfield
    • Marie McDonald
    • Tommy Noonan
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 13User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
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    Jayne Mansfield
    Jayne Mansfield
    • Sandy Brooks
    Marie McDonald
    Marie McDonald
    • Claire Banner
    Tommy Noonan
    Tommy Noonan
    • Jeff Brooks
    Mickey Hargitay
    Mickey Hargitay
    • King Banner
    Fritz Feld
    Fritz Feld
    • Ship's Doctor
    Eileen Barton
    Eileen Barton
    • Girl in Doctor's office
    Claude Stroud
    Claude Stroud
    • Steward
    Eddie Quillan
    Eddie Quillan
    • Bartender
    Marjorie Bennett
    Marjorie Bennett
    • Mrs. Snavely
    Victor Lundin
    Victor Lundin
    • Mrs. Snavely's Gigolo
    • (as Vic Lundin)
    T.C. Jones
    • Babbette, ship's hairdresser…
    Imogene Coca
    Imogene Coca
    • Woman under Hair Dryer
    • (uncredited)
    Richard Dawson
    Richard Dawson
      Patrick O'Moore
      Patrick O'Moore
      • Ship's Captain
      • (uncredited)
        • King Donovan
        • William Welch(screenplay)
        • Tommy Noonan(screenplay)
        • Edna Sheklow(play)
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      • Trivia
        This was the first movie in which a mainstream American actress (Jayne Mansfield) appeared nude (in several revealing scenes). It reportedly took some imbibing of champagne on Mansfield's part to get her to take off her clothes, although her fellow actors revealed in later interviews that she became quite comfortable being nude on the set, even traipsing around between scenes fully nude. In fact, a photo in Kenneth Anger's book "Hollywood Babylon II" shows Mansfield on the set completely nude chatting with the crew.
      • Goofs
        At the start of the film when Sandy (Jayne Mansfield) is in the bubble-bath, she breaks the 4th Wall by glancing several times towards the camera when she is supposed to act as if she is alone.
      • Quotes

        Ship's Doctor: Now then, just dissolve this in an alcoholic drink and take it down.

        Jeff Brooks: You mean to say that this pill is going to help me become a father?

        Ship's Doctor: I have every reason to believe it will.

        Jeff Brooks: Wow! What's in it?

        Ship's Doctor: Well, let us just say it will accomplish a purpose. Immediately afterwards, however, a temporary state of amnesia may occur.

        Jeff Brooks: Oh, amnesia?

        Ship's Doctor: There's nothing to worry about.

        Jeff Brooks: Oh, thank you, Doctor.

        Ship's Doctor: You're very welcome. 'Bye.

        Ship's Doctor: [recording his notes] Patient Jeffrey Brooks, professional writer, travelling on world cruise with his wife, Sandra. Couple married four years. No children. Patient has symptoms of extreme tension and anxiety caused by apparent infertility. Normal in all other respects. Prescribed five grains of salicylic acid, telling patient it would produce great excitement accompanied by complete freedom from anxiety and inhibitions. A simple experiment in the power of suggestion. Patient is, of course, unaware that the dosage is an aspirin tablet. It will be interesting to see what happens.

      • Connections
        Edited into The Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968)
      • Soundtracks
        Lu-Lu-Lu I'm in Love
        Music & Lyrics by Hal Borne

        Performed by Jayne Mansfield (uncredited)

      User reviews13

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      "Jayne Mansfield? Oh, I do her, too!"
      Jayne Mansfield generated some of the most heated publicity of her career (and that's saying a lot!) when she agreed to film nude scenes for the 1963 comedy, "Promises! Promises!" No American star of her magnitude had ever appeared undraped onscreen before, and the controversy led to the picture being banned, court hearings on obscenity, and Mansfield stoically bearing the bad press (and no doubt saving all the headline clippings). Watching the film is a sad, strange experience; the nude scenes have nothing to do with the plot, and were clearly filmed solely for sensation's sake. What it shows is a star badly on the wane, appearing in an extremely low budget production, and selling her body cheap for the resultant publicity. Jayne's two nude scenes come fairly early in the film, which means there's plenty of time left for highly strained, largely unfunny, mostly sex-less antics. The crux of the plot involves two married couples, Jayne/Tommy Noonan and Marie McDonald/Mickey Hargitay, on a cruise together. In a rather lewd plot device, both women end up pregnant, and because of some drunken revelry between the couples (never seen), no one is sure who the father is for which baby. One surreal scene has Jayne attending a shipboard party where female impersonator T.C. Jones does celebrity imitations, one of whom is Jayne Mansfield! In character as "Sandy," Jayne squeals with delight and does HER "imitation" of Jayne Mansfield. Unfortunately, it's the funniest moment in the film. On the brighter side, Jayne looks especially lovely and voluptuous, and, playing it relatively straight for once, doesn't rely too much on high-pitched ooohs and aahhhs. Micky Hargitay (Jayne's real-life husband) looks much too young to be marruied to former 40's pinup girl Marie McDonald, but displays a rather sweet, doltish charm as a Hungarian actor striving to lose his pronounced accent (it must've been a real stretch for him). For the die-hard Jayne Mansfield fan, this is basically a harmless, actionless, sexless sex comedy, and a chance to see the star rather perfunctorily topless. For everyone else, it's a historic curiosity, and nothing more.
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        • September 15, 1966 (Netherlands)
        • United States
        • English
      • Also known as
        • S.S. Independence
      • Production company
        • Noonan-Taylor Production
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      • 1 hour 15 minutes
        • Black and White
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