I'm a fan of movies from this period. Hadn't ever seen this but caught it offered on Amazon Prime, which has some different movies from various eras available-a much more interesting library than Netflix. I would have passed it up by I did see that it was directed by the great Billy Wilder. Wilder deals again with marriage infidelity as he did "The Seven Year Itch" and "The Apartment." This time the married couple is Ray Walston and Felicia Farr, living in tiny Climax, NV. who end up with Dean Martin, ostensibly playing himself "Dino" who ends up in their home for the evening. Walston is an piano instructor are and co-author of incredibly bad songs-but if he can get Dino to buy one and sing on his TV show he thinks he can make it to the bigtime. Plot gets a bit complicated as Walston is afraid Dino will seduce is sexy and loving wife wife, so gets Kim Novak, playing a waitress/prostitute to replace her as his wife for the evening and it ends up that Kim falls, temporarily, for Walston and Dino ends up with his wife in Kim's trailer . Really rather risque for 1965, this could have never been made 10 years earlier. Originally this was to have been a Marilyn Monroe vehicle, Novak isn't bad in the part but MM would have been better. Jack Lemmon was to have had the Walston part but was busy and Peter Sellers fell seriously ill while filming, either would have been better than Walston who has the biggest part. Dino is Dino but I really enjoyed Felicia Farr, Jack Lemmons real life spouse, in her part as a loving and loyal spouse who finds her fidelity tested. I really found her very sexy, more so than Kim Novak. Some other familiar TV and movie faces from this period pop up, like Howard McNear, AKA "Floyd the Barber, as Farr's henpecked father -in-law. It's a strange plot line but interesting although about .15 could have easily been cut.
Review of Kiss Me, Stupid
