Kiss Me, Stupid

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Cast & Crew

Dean Martin
Dino

Kim Novak
Polly the Pistol, Zelda

Ray Walston
Orville J. Spooner

Felicia Farr
Zelda 'Lambchop' Spooner, Polly the Pistol

Cliff Osmond
Barney

Barbara Pepper
Big Bertha

Doro Merande
Mrs. Pettibone

Howard McNear
Mr. Pettibone

Henry Gibson
Smith

Alan Dexter
Wesson

Tom Nolan
Johnnie Mulligan

Alice Pearce
Mrs. Mulligan

John Fiedler
Reverend Carruthers

Mel Blanc
Dr. Sheldrake

Billy Wilder
Director

Anna Bonacci
Writer

I.A.L. Diamond
Writer

Billy Wilder
Writer

I.A.L. Diamond
Associate Producer

Doane Harrison
Associate Producer

Billy Wilder
Producer

André Previn
Original Music

George Gershwin
Non-Original Music

Joseph LaShelle
Cinematographer

Daniel Mandell
Film Editing

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Audience Reviews for Kiss Me, Stupid

• Dec 15, 2010

  The script starts brilliantly but screws it up around the corner, Kim Novak can't act and Ray Walston should not sing... Really! Then why this movie still feels like a classic? Billy Wilder can't fail: Dean Martin deconstructs his own image as "Dino" and Cliff Osmond proves to be quite the talent. The movie surprises you when you least expect it- I <3 billy !!!
  Anastasia B Super Reviewer
• Sep 05, 2010

  A funny flick from Wilder, but it's not one of his best, the story is pretty average. It's pretty good, and sometimes pretty funny, but it could be better.
  Aj V Super Reviewer
• Apr 18, 2010

  Coarse, leeing and jejune this borderline idiotic enterprise is unbelievably the joint effort of the usually sterling team of Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond who were WAY off their game here. Cast of fine actors are directed to make fools of themselves with Ray Walston's character being particularly infantile. A notorious flop in it's day whatever Wilder, a master of dark satire, is trying to portray or lampoon in this vulgar mess is hard to ascertain. A miss.
  jay n Super Reviewer
• Jun 09, 2008

  The plot description as it is currently written is correct to say the plot is contorted. Kim Novak is totally seductive with her low smoky voice and cleavage exposing wardrobe. Her character Polly is supposed to have a cold so her voice is even more nasally and syrupy. Ray Walston's wife as played by Farr is also just as attrative. Walston plays Orville Spooner as an extremely jealous and paranoid piano teacher who has a Betthoven sweater, a Mozart sweater, and a Brahms sweater. He's another square character in a Billy Wilder movie of the swingin' sixties. Osmond works a gas station across the street from Walston's character and plays an amateur lyricist partner to Walston's composer. Dean Martin plays Dino, or himself, if not slightly more drunk and more of a womanizer than he may have been in real life. Dino passes through the little desert town of Climax and is stranded. The song writing duo want to take advantage of the opportunity to sell a song or two and set up a scheme to try and make Dino feel comfortable. Spooner gets his wife out of the house and hires Polly from a local Hooters type bar to pretend to be his wife so he doesn't feel guilty about offering her to Dino to sweeten the deal on buying a song. They have their fantasy marriage for a night and Spooner is such a gentleman he realizes he can't even let Dino have an affair with his fake wife. Spooner treats her honorably eventually, so she won't take payment and they feel like they really were husband and wife for this one night. Meanwhile Spooner's wife ends up drunk at the bar and is taken to sleep in Polly's trailer. Dino thinks all along that Polly was Spooner's wife and shows up at the bar later. He finds out from the bartender that Polly is what he's looking for and heads to the trailer where he thinks Spooner's real wife is Polly. Now there was an alternate scene on the DVD I saw, so maybe something happened in the trailer or maybe it didn't. Well, the writing and performances aren't of the best quality, but it seems everyone involved is having fun.
  Byron B Super Reviewer