Description

 TITLE: What a Way to Go! (1964)


IMDB LINK: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058743/


IMDB RATING: 6.8/10


DIRECTOR: J. Lee Thompson


RUNTIME: 111 min


WRITERS: Gwen Davis (story)

Betty Comden (screenplay) ...


GENRE: Comedy | Romance | Musical


TAGLINE: What A Cast!... What A Past!... What A Show!...


CAST:

Shirley MacLaine ...  Louisa May Foster

Paul Newman ...  Larry Flint

Robert Mitchum ...  Rod Anderson, Jr.

Dean Martin ...  Leonard 'Lennie' Crawley

Gene Kelly ...  Pinky Benson

Robert Cummings ...  Dr. Victor Stephanson (as Bob Cummings)

Dick Van Dyke ...  Edgar Hopper

Reginald Gardiner ...  Painter

Margaret Dumont ...  Mrs. Foster

Lou Nova ...  Trentino

Fifi D'Orsay ...  Baroness

Maurice Marsac ...  Rene

Wally Vernon ...  Agent

Jane Wald ...  Polly

Lenny Kent ...  Hollywood Lawyer


PLOT SUMMARY: This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion

dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a

psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands

became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

Written by Daniel Bubbeo {dbubbeo@cmp.com} for the IMDB.