Artists And Models
The best Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movie (1955) is also Frank Tashlin’s best feature at Paramount, a satire about the comic-book craze with explosive uses of color and VistaVision, better-than-average songs, and much-better-than-average co-stars, especially Dorothy Malone and Shirley MacLaine (the latter giving Lewis a run for his money in terms of goofy mugging). Martin and Malone are comic-book artists, MacLaine is a model for the Bat Lady, and Lewis is a deranged fan whose dreams wind up inspiring (or is it duplicating?) comic-book stories and the coded messages of communist spies – or something like that. Five co-writers are credited along with Tashlin, but the stylistic exuberance is seamless, and this film eventually wound up providing the inspirational spark for Jacques Rivette’s late, great New Wave extravaganza <![CDATA[<i>]]>Céline et Julie vont en bateau<![CDATA[</i>]]> (1974). With Eva Gabor and Anita Ekberg.
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This film is screened together with <filmlink id=\"3113\">Rhapsody Rabbit</filmlink>.
- Jerry Lewis
- Dean Martin
- Shirley MacLaine
- Dorothy Malone
- Eva Gabor
- Eddie Mayehoff
- Herbert Baker
- Hal Kanter
- Don McGuire
- Frank Tashlin nach dem Theaterstück «Rockabye Baby» von Michael Davidson und Norman Lessing
- Daniel L. Fapp
- Gene Garvin
- Hugo Grenzbach
- Warren Low
- Walter Scharf
- Hal Pereira
- Tambi Larsen
- Edith Head
- Paul Nathan
- Hal B. Wallis
