What a Way to Go! (1964)
What A Cast!... What A Past!... What A Show!...
Director: J. Lee Thompson · Writers: Gwen Davis, Adolph Green, Betty Comden
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.
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Director
J. Lee Thompson
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
Victor Stephanson 
Dick Van Dyke
Edgar Hopper 
Reginald Gardiner
Painter 
Margaret Dumont
Mrs. Foster 
Lou Nova
Trentino 
Fifi D'Orsay
Baroness 
Maurice Marsac
Rene User Reviews (1)
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 her to a shrink to whom she reminisces about her hitherto marital relationships. Dean Martin in the first local bigwig to take a shine to her, but she falls for local shopkeeper Dick Van Dyke who manages to turn his tiny shop into a thriving business emporium before disaster strikes. Next she meets struggling artist Paul Neman in Paris; then Millionaire Robert Mitchum as she leaves Paris, then Gene…
