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What a Way to Go!

What A Cast!... What A Past!... What A Show!...

1964 · NR · 1h 51m

Directed by J. Lee Thompson

7.1

TMDB audience score
112 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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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

  • Wally Vernon
    Agent

  • Jane Wald
    Polly

  • Lenny Kent
    Hollywood Lawyer

  • Fred Aldrich
    Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

  • Leon Alton
    Awards Ceremony Guest (uncredited)

  • Don Anderson
    Awards Ceremony Guest (uncredited)