What a Way to Go!
What A Cast!... What A Past!... What A Show!...
Overview
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
- Budget
- $20,000,000
- Revenue
- $13,298,000
- Production
- APJAC Productions, Orchard Productions, 20th Century Fox
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Cast
Shirley MacLaine
Louisa May Foster
Paul Newman
Larry Flint
Robert Mitchum
Rod Anderson Jr.
Dean Martin
Leonard Crawley
Gene Kelly
Pinky Benson
Robert Cummings
Dr. Victor Stephanson
Dick Van Dyke
Edgar Hopper
Reginald Gardiner
Painter
Margaret Dumont
Mrs. Foster
Fifi D'Orsay
Baroness
Maurice Marsac
Rene
Wally Vernon
Agent
Lenny Kent
Hollywood Lawyer
Fred Aldrich
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Don Anderson
Awards Ceremony Guest (uncredited)
Army Archerd
TV Announcer (uncredited)
Phil Arnold
Publicity and Press Agent (uncredited)
Al Bain
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Marjorie Bennett
Mrs. Freeman (uncredited)
Nesdon Booth
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- J. Lee Thompson
- Writers
- Gwen Davis,Betty Comden,Adolph Green
- Producers
- Arthur P. Jacobs
- Cinematography
- Leon Shamroy
- Composer
- Nelson Riddle
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CinemaSerf
December 2, 2024
I recall a time when I saw Joan Collins in "Dynasty" (c. 1983) and her character was called "Alexis Carrington Colby Dexter"... I had never known a lady to keep the names of all of her husbands one after the other. Well, Shirley MacLaine beat her to it - by about 20 years - as her portrayal of "Louisa May Foster Hopper Flint Anderson Benson". The film begins as an elegantly dressed woman tries to give the IRS a cheque for a couple of hundred million dollars. They think she is bonkers and refer h…