Check out our editors' picks for the movies and shows we're excited about this month, like Mortal Kombat, "Them," and Stowaway. Some interior scenes were filmed in the Moulin Rouge night club in Los Angeles. "A man wants a career and the person who wants to help him wants to sleep with his wife. **** out of 4 stars. Synopsis. Hoping to interest Dino in their songs, Barney disables the "Italian" sports car and tells Dino he will need to remain in town until new parts arrive from Milan. She doesn't like Dino, but does love being Orville's surrogate wife. Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement. In Paris, a former policeman falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time. Sometime thereafter, it was decided that Kim Novak would play the role, coming out of a two-year absence from acting to appear in the film. The constant tumult in the Spooners' cramped bungalow betrays the movie's stage origins, and indeed, Climax itself is an appropriately desolate stage-set. When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster. However, this heavy-handed sex fable does call for a light, subtle approach that is rarely apparent. He then spends the night with Polly. . He added, "The finesse, speed, artistry and imagination of . "Kiss Me, Stupid" is very much in key with his body of work. James hits on Nikki. Unwilling to wait while Sellers completed a six-month recuperation period, Wilder opted to replace him and reshoot all his scenes.[2]. [3][4], Wilder rarely mentioned the film in later interviews, although he discussed it briefly for On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder, a biography by Ed Sikov. Huge collection, amazing choice, 100+ million high quality, affordable RF and RM images. The comic song lyrics were written by Ira Gershwin, using some of George Gershwin's unpublished melodies. It became one of the targets for denunciations of the negative impact of films on society. It was condemned by the Catholic League and was not well received by the critics or public. 71 of 86 people found this review helpful. Valentine's Day brings romantic chaos: Carter's ex-boyfriend Spence comes to visit and has a surprise. . . Wilder, usually a director of considerable flair and inventiveness (if not always impeccable taste), has not been able this time out to rise above a basically vulgar, as well as creatively delinquent, screenplay, and he has got at best only plodding help from two of his principals, Dean Martin and Kim Novak . Edit Submit Cancel We have produced a Style Guide to help editors follow a standard format when editing a listing. But Billy Wilder isn't just satisfied with presenting something. Use the HTML below. . Dino, the charming and lecherous Las Vegas singer, stops for gas on his way to Hollywood in Climax, Nevada. A ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before retirement. There is a touch of grain texture and some sneaking depth. I am a sucker for Dean Martin. Like The Carpetbaggers of the same year, the film was widely considered to be vulgar by critics. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Kiss Me Stupid. There he meets the amateur songwriting team of Barney Millsap (Cliff Osmond), a gas station attendant, and piano teacher Orville J. Spooner (Ray Walston), a man easily given to jealousy. Download this stock image: KIM NOVAK KISS ME STUPID (1964) - BP8F5Y from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors. 1,830 likes. TV-14 | 23min | Comedy | Episode aired 11 February 1997. . Like all dirty jokes, it will probably evoke a shock wave of self-conscious laughter and pass swiftly into oblivion. Kiss Me Stupid is an indie pop band from Malmö, Sweden. Orville invites Dino to stay with him and wife Zelda (Felicia Farr), but becomes concerned when he learns the singer needs to have sex every night to avoid awakening with a headache. Diamond script, summarising it is a hopeless effort, for it's a labyrinthine plot that must unfold in real time to be admired. `Stupid,' however, would not receive … Doing so, Orville gets lost in emotion, as does Polly, who has fallen a little for the dream of a domestic life that she doesn't have. "Key Scene Reinserted Into 'Kiss Me, Stupid'." Aquarius Theater - 6230 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Diamond's crisp dialogue. Sprinkling in bad jokes and Rat Pack references, Dean Martin's comic timing and delivery is impeccable . Wilder was willing to soften the suggestion Zelda had committed adultery with Dino, but he refused to comply with other demands, and the film was condemned, the first American film to be so designated since Baby Doll in 1956. I n the credit sequence of Billy Wilder’s scathing sex comedy Kiss Me, Stupid, the chauvinist performance of tipsy swing vocalist Dino (Dean Martin) is intercut repeatedly with a group shot of male bartenders laughing hyena-like at his sexist jokes. Share. Upon his release, the actor returned to England under doctor's orders. Stub Kiss Me, Stupid is a 1964 American sex comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder and starring Dean Martin, Kim Novak, and Ray Walston. Spin City S01E16 - Kiss Me, Stupid. . The oily gas station attendant is Barney Millsap, a would-be lyricist who writes pop songs with Orville Spooner, the local piano teacher. I thought he was the funniest man in Hollywood." A frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. "[7], Variety said the script "calls for a generous seasoning of Noël Coward but, unfortunately, it provides a dash of same only now and again . This is his best film work and he deserved an Oscar for this role.Dean Martin is cast as "Dino", a drunken, womanizing singer (how much of that was fiction?). GwynToto. Directed by Billy Wilder. Kiss Me Stupid. All Episodes (145) Next. Noting Wilder’s earlier collaboration with writer Charles Brackett, Morris writes: “During the years he was flourishing commercially and artistically, Wilder was often criticized [sic] for the cynicism, the absence of redeeming human values in his work. Kiss Me, Stupid has another modest Blu-ray transfer from Olive Films. Jealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town. Add the first question. [2], In 2002 a print was shown in several U.S. cities containing the originally-shot seduction scene in Polly's trailer (seen in European exhibition), rather than the tamer replacement Wilder has supplied in hope of satisfying the Catholic Legion of Decency. He and Barney then arrange for Polly the Pistol (Kim Novak), a waitress and prostitute at a saloon on the edge of town called the Belly Button, to pose as Orville's wife and satisfy Dino. For example, Tom Green's "Freddy Got Fingered" wallows in just being disgusting and on that level, it is very wretched indeed. He gets car trouble while passing through a small town (called Climax, Nevada) and ends up staying at the house of an amateur songwriter Orville (played by Ray Walston). Instead, we have cheapness that will not shock a grownup. Comedy. The director then signed Peter Sellers for the role. If John Cassavetes' Husbands can be a comedy, then Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid is a drama—a miserable and misery-laden one—a cynical takedown of romance and marriage, a nutty inversion of adultery, and Billy Wilder at his sunny gloomiest.