Word: cameos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN. Walter Matthau is the man and Bobby Morse is his guide through the intricacies of adultery. A fine collection of comics (among them: Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, Art Carney, Joey Bishop) contribute cameo illustrations to the lecture...
...GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN. Walter Matthau is the man and Bobby Morse is his guide through the intricacies of adultery-with a fine collection of comics (among them: Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, Joey Bishop) contributing cameo illustrations to the lecture...
...wandering eye (Robert Morse) nominates himself as Matthau's instructor in the arcane rules of high-infidelity. Like most modern teachers, Morse goes in for visual aids: every time he makes a pedantic point the screen lights up with a lively sketch from life, featuring 13 stars in cameo roles as "technical advisers...
...Celeste Holm, who plays Sandra's mother, pronounces such stagy prattle as: "Don't you like him any more? I mean are you afraid it was just (pause) physical?" For those who wonder whatever happened to that angry young hippie, Mort Sahl, Doctor casts him in a cameo part as a square nightclub owner. Even a grain of Sahl adds no flavor to this tasteless trifle...
Even a first-rate cast cannot help Millie from ultimately being thoroughly maudlin. Julie Andrews' star bright charm and prodigious energies cannot make a hit all by themselves, nor can Beatrice Lillie's still wonderful deadpan drolleries. Carol Channing, in a cameo role, only indicates that she is better as a living Dolly than as an overgrown Jazz Baby. The picture's basic problem, however, lies not with its talent but with its target. Satire is never any stronger than the host it feeds upon; by lampooning an overdone era, the creators of the film have made...