Well, now how cool to see Jette Kernion share more 'bout this at the Cinematical blogg (clicks on tagg of this Dinogram to goes there). Am Dinothrilled to read how Jette has been encouragin' as many as possible to see this Dinoclassic. Enjoys the cool pix as well as the opennin' credits Dinoclip. How stellar to see the name of our Dino continuin' to be lifted up in so many cool places and so many cool ways. Dinodelightedly, DMP
Credits Report: Kiss Me, Stupid
by Jette Kernion Sep 23rd 2009 // 2:32PM
Filed under: Comedy, Fandom
Here in Austin, the Billy Wilder movie Kiss Me, Stupid is playing tonight as part of a series about Wilder's later films, and I suspect I am driving people crazy, trying to convince them to see it with me. I may have scared a local filmmaker at a screening of Wilder's One, Two, Three a couple of weeks ago, urging the poor man -- whom I hardly know -- to return for this film.
Kiss Me, Stupid is often considered one of Wilder's worst films, a smutfest from 1964 that helped end the Production Code in Hollywood, a black-and-white comedy that is the opposite of the sophisticated sex comedies of the early 1960s (Doris Day and that crowd). It might have been a very different movie with its original lead actor, Peter Sellers, but he was ill and had to be replaced by Ray Walston. And yet there's something about this sex comedy that's appealing to me. The cast includes not only Walston but Dean Martin, Kim Novak and Felicia Farr.
The opening credits, which you can watch via YouTube after the jump, are the only part of Kiss Me, Stupid set outside the small town of Climax, Nevada. In Las Vegas, a celebrity crooner known only in the film as Dino (Dean Martin, natch) is performing his closing-night act before driving to Hollywood. It's a glitzy Vegas nightclub, with stereotypical leggy showgirls. I sometimes wish this scene had been shot in color, like an anti-Wizard of Oz. But the comedy style sets you up perfectly for the tone of this film. It's also fun to know that not only is the song that Dino sings in the credits a Gershwin tune ("'S Wonderful") but so are all the "bad" songs throughout the movie.
4 comments:
FANTASTIC! I must go rent this. (How did I miss it???) Dean Martin AND Billy Wilder is like wow.
Hey pallie, greats to hear from you ma'am....as I understand it KMS has been taken out of DVD release at this time, but you still oughta be able to find a copy to rent....be aware that this is our Dino at his randiest and was banned by many when it was first released....our Dino always is ahead of his times....
yey :D i just bought that movie last week :D
Dean is like super handsome and cool in it!
Hey pallie, likes you musta have almost all of our Dino's flicks that exist on DVD..how cool is that...yeah, Dino is just pure Dinoish in this amazin' Dinoflick....as I have often said our Dino was so ahead of this time...enjoys all your Dinoviewin' please of KMS....
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