Kiss Me, Stupid
“It happened in Climax, Nevada”
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.
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Cast
18 people
Dean Martin
Dino
Known for
Rio Bravo
Ocean's Eleven
Kim Novak
Polly the Pistol
Known for
Vertigo
Bell, Book and Candle
Ray Walston
Orville Jeremiah Spooner
Known for
The Stand
The Apartment
Felicia Farr
Zelda Spooner
Known for
3:10 to Yuma
Charley Varrick
Cliff Osmond
Barney Milsap
Known for
The Fortune Cookie
Irma la Douce
Barbara Pepper
Big Bertha
Known for
Our Daily Bread
Foreign Correspondent
Skip Ward
Milkman
Known for
The Night of the Iguana
Hombre
Doro Merande
Mrs. Pettibone
Known for
The Man with the Golden Arm
Tom Nolan
Johnnie Mulligan
Also in
Buckskin
Chastity
Alice Pearce
Mrs. Mulligan
Known for
Bewitched
On the Town
John Fiedler
Rev. Carruthers
Known for
12 Angry Men
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Howard McNear
Mr Pettibone
Known for
The Andy Griffith Show
Anatomy of a Murder
Billy Wilder Director · I. A. L. Diamond Screenplay Anna Bonacci Author
Worldwide gross $10M · Budget $3.5M · United States release December 22, 1964
Box office
Budget
$3,500,000
Worldwide gross
$10,000,000
Gross vs. budget
2.9×
Production
Phalanx Productions
Production
Claude Productions
Production
The Mirisch Company
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United Artists
Production
Lopert Pictures Corporation
Production
Mirisch Corporation, The
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · December 18, 1964
Premiere · Los Angeles, California
United States · December 22, 1964
Theatrical
United States · January 27, 1993
Physical · VHS
United States
July 15, 2003 · Physical · DVD
November 1, 2008 · Digital · Amazon
February 17, 2015 · Physical · Blu-ray
Finland
December 25, 1964 · Theatrical
France
February 3, 1965 · Theatrical
Germany
December 25, 1964 · Theatrical
Italy
December 22, 1964 · Theatrical
Japan
April 2, 1965 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
July 7, 2004 · Physical · DVD
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