Directed by:
Jerry LewisCinematography:
W. Wallace KelleyCast:
Janet Leigh, Jerry Lewis, Mary Ann Mobley, Gila Golan, Leslie Parrish, Scatman Crothers, James Best, Kathleen Freeman, Buddy Lester, David Draper, Renzo Cesana (more)Plots(1)
In this film, Jerry Lewis once again takes on multiple roles as he did in THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963). He plays an artist commissioned to paint in Paris who wants to take his psychiatrist girl friend Leigh along to celebrate their honeymoon. She, however, has three man-hating patients who cant do without her. Using a variety disguises, Lewis becomes the boy friend of each of the three patients. His charade is finally discovered and he nearly loses Leigh, but her now-cured patients convince her to take the vacation. After a long stretch with Paramount, this was Lewis first effort for Columbia and though the film did turn a profit, there were some embarrassingly lame ad schemes to help it do so--the kind Frank Tashlin would make fun of in WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? Since the number three was in the title, Columbia sponsored a number of contests having to do with the number, and even let triplets into the theater for free, far from a financial risk, however, considering the mathematical improbability of triplets. Another "bright idea" was to start a "We Hate Men" fan club. Three beauties with little acting ability were chosen by Lewis to play the man-hating trio in the picture. They were former Miss America, Mary Ann Mobley, Gila Golan, a former Miss Israel, and Parrish, a former NBC "Color Girl." All got plenty of screen time, but none seem to have had star quality, and film moguls remained indifferent to them. The picture grossed more than $2.5 million for a fair profit. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Janet Leigh
USA
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Little Women (1949)
Jerry Lewis
USA
Best movies:
Trumbo (2015) - a.f.
The King of Comedy (1982)
Arizona Dream (1993)
Mary Ann Mobley
USA
Best movies:
Girl Happy (1965)
Harum Scarum (1965)
Gila Golan
Poland
Best movies:
Ship of Fools (1965)
The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
Our Man Flint (1966)
Leslie Parrish
USA
Best movies:
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
The Opposite Sex (1956)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Scatman Crothers
USA
Best movies:
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Shining (1980)
Roots (1977) (series)
James Best
USA
Best movies:
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! (1997) (TV movie)
Winchester '73 (1950)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Kathleen Freeman
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
Shrek (2001)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Buddy Lester
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Party (1968)
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
David Draper
USA
Best movies:
Walk Don't Run (1966)
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)
Don't Make Waves (1967)
Renzo Cesana
Italy
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Stromboli (1950)
The Sound of Fury (1950)
Fritz Feld
German Empire
Best movies:
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Jesslyn Fax
Canada
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
North by Northwest (1959)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
Gene LeBell
USA
Best movies:
Raging Bull (1980)
Ed Wood (1994)
Man on the Moon (1999)
Amadee Chabot
USA
Best movies:
The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
The Silencers (1966)
Murderers' Row (1966)
Renie Riano
UK
Best movies:
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Day-Time Wife (1939)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Bill Richmond
USA
Best movies:
The Errand Boy (1961)
The Bellboy (1960)
The Patsy (1964)
Del Moore
USA
Best movies:
The Errand Boy (1961)
Cinderfella (1960)
The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
Victor Romito
Italy
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Pamela Rodgers
USA
Best movies:
The Silencers (1966)
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)