S * T * A * R * R * I * N * G
Phil Silvers
Claire Wilcox, Larry Storch, Howard Morris,
Edward Andrews, Stubby Kaye, Warren Stevens,
Mary Murphy, Kevin McCarthy, Karen Steele,
Tom Reese, Gregg Palmer, Steve Gravers,
Ford Rainey, Paul Comi, Sharon Farrell,
David Allen, Jack LaRue
Year:
1963
Name: Chris Lockwood, singer
Costumes: Rosemary Odell
Makeup: Bud Westmore
Hairstylist: Larry Germaine
Music: Mort Lindsey
Song: According to the
pressbook, "If You" is sung by Pleshette,
but her name is listed neither on the soundtrack nor in the film credits.
Screenwriter: Marion Hargrove
Source: Damon Runyon's
"Little Miss Marker," in COLLIER'S (3/26/32)
Director: Norman Jewison
Producer: Stan Margulies
Studio: Universal
"The picture marks an important stride on Pleshette's road to fame," reads the pressbook, "and one result of her role is that the Theatre Owners of America, the nation's most influential organization of movie theatre owners, have named her '1963's Most Exciting New Star.'"
"I made 40 POUNDS OF TROUBLE, with Tony Curtis," Pleshette said, "but I had a shallow role. The part of the girl didn't further the plot at all."
The film marked a number of "firsts":
• It offered the first use of Disneyland as one of the principal settings.
• It marked the film debut of director Norman Jewison, whose previous work was entirely in television.
• It marked the debut of Stan Murgulies as a producer.
• It was the first picture to be completed under the Curtis Enterprises production banner.
This Damon Runyon short story had been previously filmed twice by Paramount: in 1934 as LITTLE MISS MARKER and in 1949 as SORROWFUL JONES.
R * E * V * I * E * W * S
"Suzanne Pleshette SCORES as the grown-up girl after Tony's heart." —Beverly Linet, MODERN SCREEN (3/63)
"Mr. Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette as the singer and Claire Wilcox as the baby-talking child are as BANAL as spot-commercial hawkers of headache tablets or crunchy breakfast foods." —Bosley Crowther, NEW YORK TIMES (1/24/63)
"Pleshette, whose manner is reminiscent of Joan Bennett's, handles her romantic assignment with FINESSE." —VARIETY MOVIE GUIDE
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