How to Murder Your Wife

How to Murder Your Wife

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  • Genre(s): Comedy
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Richard Quine, Carter De Haven Jr., Angelo Laiacona, Esther Stephenson
  • Cast(s): Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas , Eddie Mayehoff, Claire Trevor See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 58min
  • Music: Neal Hefti,James Nelson,John C. Hammell,J.S. Westmoreland,Lyle Figland
  • Award(s): Golden Laurel 1965 (Won)
    BAFTA Film 1966 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Swapped, Outcome
  • Story:

    Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband.

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6.5/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story

Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband.

Ratings

6.5/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Won
Golden Laurel Award

Comedy Performance Male | 1965 | Jack

Nominations
BAFTA Film Award

Best Foreign Actor | 1966 | Jack

Golden Laurel Award

Supporting Performance Female | 1965 | Claire

BOX OFFICE

Box Office Collection 12,000,000 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

During a taping of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), Jack Lemmon told this story. Prior to starting the film, the husband of co-star Virna Lisi made her promise that she would not be talked into doing a nude scene in her first American film. She assured him that she would not, signed the contract and traveled to Hollywood. While filming the "revelation" scene, where Lemmon awakens to discover in horror that he had gotten married at the bachelor party, she had to disrobe and lay in the bed nude but discreetly covered with a sheet. However, it was this day that her husband, an architect, arrived unannounced at the set to surprise his wife. When he walked into the scene, he became very upset. He focused his anger toward Lemmon who, realizing that discretion was the better part of valor, exited the set at full speed with Virna's husband in pursuit. Running past several sound stages on the MGM lot, he quickly found a garbage dumpster, jumped in and closed the cover. He waited there until security officers found him.

Stanley's wife is referred to as "Mrs. Ford" throughout the whole film. Her first name is not mentioned once.

In the Italian version Virna Lisi's character is Greek.

There are at least six art pieces in Ford's apartment that are drawn/painted in the style of "Big Eyes" artist Margaret Keane, who was extremely popular at the time.

The comic strip art in the film was done by Mel Keefer, the artist on Perry Mason, Mac Divot and Rick O'Shay comic strips. In addition, Alex Toth drew a comic strip of the characters as part of a teaser campaign to promote the film.

Popular Dialogues

"Charles Firbank: This is Mr. Ford's shower - thermostatically controlled at Mr. Ford's body temperature: ninety-eight point *seven*!"

"Stanley Ford: Good evening, Judge Blackstone. I'm afraid this is a mournful occasion. Judge Blackstone: Not at all, my boy, not at all. Been married 38 years myself. And I don't regret one day of it. The one day I don't regret was... August 2, 1936. She was off visiting her ailing mother at the time."