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Cast

Rona Barrett

Mae West
as Marlo Manners

Timothy Dalton
as Sir Michael Barrington

Regis Philbin

Dom DeLuise
as Dan Turner

Tony Curtis
as Alexei Karansky

Ringo Starr
as Laslo Karolny

George Hamilton
as Vance

Alice Cooper
as Waiter

Allison Keith
as Waiter in Alexei's Suite

Rona Barrett
as Herself

Van McCoy
as Delegate

Keith Moon
as Dress Designer

Regis Philbin
as Himself

Walter Pidgeon
as The Chairman

Harry Weiss
as The Don

George Raft
as Himself

Gil Stratton
as Himself

June Fairchild
as Woman Reporter

George E. Carey
as Dockweiler

Ed Beheler
as Jimmy Carter

Derek Murcott
as Hotel Manager

William Beckley
as Desk Clerk

Jay B. Larson
as 2cnd Deaf & Dumb Man

Richard Peel
as English Chef

Ian Abercrombie
as Rex Ambrose

James Bacon
as Reporter

Peter Alexander
as Ronald Cartwright

Jill Freeman
as Fan

Jason Cooper
as Guard

Calvin Bartlett
as Mr. Foreman

Reg Lewis
as Athlete

Jim Morris
as Weight-lifter

Roger Callard
as Javelin Thrower (uncredited)

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Critic Reviews for Sextette

Audience Reviews for Sextette

• Jul 04, 2014

  This was no way for Mae West to end her storied career but unfortunately it was the end of the line for her. Simply awful and embarrassing. Even for camp aficionados this will be rough going.
  jay n Super Reviewer
• Jan 13, 2012

  The Village People's "Can't Stop the Music" and the Peter Frampton/Bee Gees take on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" draw most of the heat, but "Sextette" deserves equal enshrinement as one of the disco era's ultimate film catastrophes. Mae West essentially plays herself as actress Marlo Manners, humbly introduced as "Hollywood's all-time superstar" and "the greatest sex symbol the screen has ever known." Her list of lovers is even more outrageous than her age-hiding makeup, and she has just married her sixth husband, Sir Michael Barrington (Timothy Dalton, during his hungrier years). She and Michael have retired to their honeymoon suite and are eager to git busy, but the paparazzi (including Regis Philbin and Rona Barrett), ex-husbands (Ringo Starr, Tony Curtis, George Hamilton) and Marlo's entourage (notably Dom De Luise, perhaps the only cast member who comes off well) are a steady obstacle. Songs keep popping up regardless of how loudly you protest, and they aren't even originals except for a pair written by Van "The Hustle" McCoy. Instead you get nuggets such as "Love Will Keep Us Together" (this is why James Bond never sings), "Baby Face," "After You've Gone," the Beatles' "Honey Pie" and "Hooray for Hollywood." Usually with slick, period-dated arrangements. Awkward subplots feature a world-government conflict that only Marlo can solve (the Jimmy Carter lookalike is a tasteless cringe) and a pink cassette of her memoirs that she paradoxically labors over despite believing it needs to be destroyed. Don't miss the cameos of Keith Moon and Alice Cooper, though. Moon (sadly near death) is a flamboyant costume designer, and an unrecognizable Cooper is a well-groomed waiter who performs the film's only semi-listenable song on piano. Seeing a slimmer De Luise tap-dance is another fun surprise. West probably deserves some leeway, considering she was eighty-something at the time. It's ludicrous to present herself as a lust object who would drive men like Dalton and Hamilton wild, but she does supply an adequate string of one-liners to swat back obvious set-ups such as "I'll keep a stiff upper lip." Har har. (Actually, one pun about director Ernst Lubitsch is quite clever, and there's also her oft-quoted "...or are you just happy to see me?" quip.)
  

  Eric B Super Reviewer

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