Word: hyeres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WIVES AND LOVERS. A jack (Van Johnson) and two queens (Janet Leigh, Martha Hyer) make a full house in this amusing game of stud devised by Scriptwriter Edward Anhalt and Director John Rich, who for the most part play their cards very well indeed...
Wives and Lovers perkily proves that the eternal triangle is still good for laughs. The triangle consists of Author Van Johnson, Wife Janet Leigh and Literary Agent Martha Hyer, who sells Van's novel to a publisher, a book club, a Broadway producer and a movie company ("Paramount wants it for Burton, O'Toole, Olivier, Loren and Fabian"). Not content with her 10%, she tries to collect the author...
...Actor Laurence Harvey, who was born in Lithuania, plays a half-Russian, half-Chinese photographer in Tokyo who wants to go to the U.S. France Nuyen, who was born in Marseille of a French mother and a Chinese father, plays Tamiko, a highborn Japanese girl who wants Harvey. Martha Hyer, who is as American as a mink-lined raincoat in July, also wants Harvey, and so does Miyoshi Umeki, an honest-to-Buddha Japanese, who plays a Ginza B-girl...
...beneath all the sukiyaki, Producer Hal Wallis has put together an entertaining little picture; the neon wetness of Tokyo streets and the misty watercolors of the countryside in the exterior shots lend a much needed credibility to the convolutions of the plot. Harvey wants a visa to the U.S. Hyer, as a receptionist at the U.S. embassy, is willing to expedite it, provided he comes to terms, her terms. Nuyen counters by finding work for him in Japan to prove that despite his Sino-Russian origins and his British accent, he has a future there. Hyer ripostes with...
...Ryan harnesses his huskies and mushes off into the Arctic where, to assuage his grief, he sires a son by an Eskimo maiden. In the meantime, the caddish Burton has ditched Actress Jones, a mere hotelkeeper's daughter, and married a millionaire's cold-faced daughter (Martha Hyer), who bears him a baby girl...