Dean Martin




How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

May 6, 2007
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How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968)

Nate Monaster and Stanley Shapiro had written the hit That Touch of Mink, an unlikely but very satisfying comedy starring Doris Day and Cary Grant. In How to Save a Marriage they recapture that bachelor verses girlfriend spirit in another unlikely comedy of errors that takes place in a pre-feminist fantasy world where playboy executives install their mistresses in a lavish New York City apartment building tailored to accommodate their liaisons.
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What a Way to Go

August 25, 2006
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What a Way to Go! (1964)

Shirley MacClaine is one of the few female stars who was able to get top billing over her male leads. Seeming to flaunt it she appeared in several “vignette” films where she is romantically paired (sequentially) with a string of Hollywood’s top men.
bonus Edith Head Gallery after the jump:
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The Silencers

July 10, 2006
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The Silencers (1966)

director Phil Karlson
loosely based on the Matt Helm novels by Donald Hamilton
music Elmer Bernstein, theme sung by Vikki Carr
costume Moss Mabry, Sy Devore
starring Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi, Victor Buono, Nancy Kovack, Cyd Charisse, Beverly Adams

What kind of secret agent drives a station wagon?! Everyone in the ’60s had a spy show, but Dean Martin as tough guy Matt Helm brings the genre to new lows. Dino plays Matt as Dino. He drinks and sweats and waits for another beautiful woman to further the plot. Meanwhile, adorable Stella Stevens and the delicious Dalia Lavi dodge bullets and karate chop their way through glamorous gowns and structured hair styles to save Arizona from a nuclear missle… um, yeah. At age 45, Cyd Charisse smolders as showgirl Sarita: victim of one of the strangest dance costumes ever!
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