Word: lisi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALCOA PREVIEW (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Behind the scenes with Virna Lisi as she made How to Murder Your Wife, and with Tommy Steele as he prepares for his Broadway debut in the musical Half a Sixpence...
...MURDER YOUR WIFE. As a care free bachelor who gets waylaid into matrimony, Jack Lemmon pleads the case for uxoricide, though his manservant (Terry-Thomas) makes the crime nonsensical, and his scrumptious lady (Italy's Virna Lisi) makes it practically unthinkable...
...MURDER YOUR WIFE. The mayhem in this nimble comedy about a man who gets drunk and marries without malice aforethought is plotted by Jack Lemmon, whose fracturingly funny performance is smoothly supported by Terry-Thomas and Italy's Virna Lisi, an import who makes hard-sell sex seem as classy as caviar...
...bigger surprise is Italian Actress Lisi, an import whose dramatic talent graced two dozen European films before Hollywood discovered her smartly turned sense of humor. Speaking scant English, newly blonde and lacquered to the customary high gloss, she translates her U.S. movie debut into a triumph of personality that will probably establish a long-term policy of lend-Lisi. She is devastating to behold as a centerpiece, though she somehow makes hard-sell sex seem at least as classy as caviar. She is delightful to listen to when she explains with gestures the stunning miscarriage of justice by which...
...garden of sex and violence. "No gay little chintzes, no big gunky lamps, the complete absence of a woman's touch," gloats Terry-Thomas. But one night at a bachelor dinner, someone wheels in a gigantic cake that gives forth a frosted blonde (Virna Lisi), and Lemmon, anesthetized by alcohol, begins to chew his cheeks like a man cutting a sweet tooth...