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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...
...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...
Tall, shapely Virna Lisi, 27, has a non-Latin look that appeals to Italian fans and will be sampled by U.S. audiences when she appears with Jack Lemmon in How to Murder Your Wife, her first Hollywood film. Sylva (38-26-38) Koscina, 27, is another tall, cool one, a Yugoslav by birth, who came on strong in Joseph Levine's muscle opera, Hercules, and keeps the paparazzi popping by strolling around in skintight black leather ski pants...