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Bring The Little Woman...Maybe She'll Die Laughing!
Stanley Ford is a successful cartoonist and happily single. That is, until he gets drunk at a friend's bachelor party and impulsively proposes to the beautiful woman who pops out of the cake. Once sober, he regrets the decision, but she won't agree to a divorce. Stanley jokingly vents his frustrations in his comic strip by having the main character kill his wife. But when his actual wife goes missing and Stanley is arrested for her murder, he has a change of heart.Read moreLess
Stanley Ford is a successful cartoonist and happily single. That is, until he gets drunk at a friend's bachelor party and impulsively proposes to the beautiful woman who pops out of the cake. Once sober, he regrets the decision, but she won't agree to a divorce. Stanley jokingly vents his frustrations in his comic strip by having the main character kill his wife. But when his actual wife goes missing and Stanley is arrested for her murder, he has a change of heart.
The story
Stanley Ford is a successful cartoonist and happily single. That is, until he gets drunk at a friend's bachelor party and impulsively proposes to the beautiful woman who pops out of the cake. Once sober, he regrets the decision, but she won't agree to a divorce. Stanley jokingly vents his frustrations in his comic strip by having the main character kill his wife. But when his actual wife goes missing and Stanley is arrested for her murder, he has a change of heart.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Jack LemmonStanley Ford
Virna LisiMrs. Ford
Terry-ThomasCharles
Eddie MayehoffHarold Lampson
Claire TrevorEdna
Sidney BlackmerJudge Blackstone
Max ShowalterTobey Rawlins
Jack AlbertsonDr. Bentley
Mary WickesHarold's Secretary
Alan HewittDistrict Attorney
Barry KelleyClub Member
William BryantClub MemberExplore the crew
- Director
- Richard Quine
- Director of Photography
- Harry Stradling Sr.
- Editor
- David Wages
- Producer
- George Axelrod
- Writer
- George Axelrod
- Original Music Composer
- Neal Hefti