Written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and directed by J. Lee Thompson, this super production had elaborate sets, and Shirley MacLaine with six leading men, 72 gowns and 72 hairstylesall for the purpose of stating that money is the root of all evil!
Like "A New Kind of Love," it's a pathetic pastiche of sex comedy, satire, fantasy and pretentious techniques, which support a one-joke story: a woman wants to live a simple life, but has the "misfortune" to marry men who become millionaires, and who die shortly thereafter, leaving her hopelessly wealthy
Newman had the good fortune to appear in only a small portion of this disaster He's the second of five husbandsan American gifted painter who drives a taxi in Paris and has invented a machine that converts sound into oil paintings
The couple are poor and happy until MacLaine feeds classical music into the machine, resulting in a successful painting Newman becomes rich, builds more and more machines, and gets so involved in his work (another obsessed artist!) he ignores his wife
Newman is surprisingly amusing when he talks about art in almost a Graziano voice, and when he "conducts" his machines into a frenzy
Like "A New Kind of Love," it's a pathetic pastiche of sex comedy, satire, fantasy and pretentious techniques, which support a one-joke story: a woman wants to live a simple life, but has the "misfortune" to marry men who become millionaires, and who die shortly thereafter, leaving her hopelessly wealthy
Newman had the good fortune to appear in only a small portion of this disaster He's the second of five husbandsan American gifted painter who drives a taxi in Paris and has invented a machine that converts sound into oil paintings
The couple are poor and happy until MacLaine feeds classical music into the machine, resulting in a successful painting Newman becomes rich, builds more and more machines, and gets so involved in his work (another obsessed artist!) he ignores his wife
Newman is surprisingly amusing when he talks about art in almost a Graziano voice, and when he "conducts" his machines into a frenzy