How to Murder Your Wife
“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.
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Cast
20 people
Jack Lemmon
Stanley Ford
Known for
The Apartment
Some Like It Hot
Virna Lisi
Mrs. Ford
Known for
Taste of the Sea
The Black Tulip
Terry-Thomas
Charles
Known for
Robin Hood
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Eddie Mayehoff
Harold Lampson
Known for
Artists and Models
Claire Trevor
Edna
Known for
Stagecoach
Murder, My Sweet
Sidney Blackmer
Judge Blackstone
Known for
Rosemary's Baby
Little Caesar
Max Showalter
Tobey Rawlins
Known for
Niagara
Sixteen Candles
Jack Albertson
Dr. Bentley
Known for
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Fox and the Hound
Mary Wickes
Harold's Secretary
Known for
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Sister Act
Alan Hewitt
District Attorney
Known for
Days of Wine and Roses
That Touch of Mink
Barry Kelley
Club Member
Known for
The Asphalt Jungle
The Manchurian Candidate
William Bryant
Club Member
Known for
Corvette Summer
The Great Race
Richard Quine Director · George Axelrod Writer Neal Hefti Composer
Worldwide gross $12M · United States release January 26, 1965 · Produced in United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$12,000,000
Production
Murder Inc.
Production
United Artists Pictures
Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Italian
Release dates
United States · January 26, 1965
Theatrical
Brazil
January 1, 1966 · Theatrical
France
April 1, 1965 · Theatrical
Germany
April 7, 1965 · Theatrical
Ireland
October 22, 1965 · Theatrical
Italy
August 13, 1965 · Theatrical
Portugal
January 2, 1966 · Theatrical
Spain
April 18, 1965 · Theatrical
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