How to Murder Your Wife (1965) on Netflix
Stanley Ford, a successful newspaper cartoonist, prizes his bachelor life in Manhattan. A drunken friend's bachelor party leaves him married to the Italian woman who popped out of the cake.
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Plot summary
Stanley Ford draws Bash Brannigan, a syndicated strip about a daring secret agent, and he holds that Brannigan should never do anything Stanley has not done himself. So he stages each adventure around Manhattan while his valet, Charles, shoots photographs to draw from. Then Stanley drinks too much at a friend's bachelor party and wakes up married to the young Italian woman who had jumped from the cake. He regrets it immediately, and Charles quits rather than serve a married man. Stanley's lawyer, Harold Lampson, tells him a divorce requires legal justification, and his wife, who speaks no English, settles in with a small dog, Italian cooking and a television she says helps her learn the language.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
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- George Axelrod wrote How to Murder Your Wife but let Richard Quine direct it, later saying Quine talked him into it and that he should have directed it himself because he was ready but too frightened.
- Comics artist Alex Toth drew a teaser comic strip in Mel Keefer's style that ran in The Hollywood Reporter and several newspapers for ten days before the film's theatrical opening.
- In the Italian version of How to Murder Your Wife, Stanley's wife and mother-in-law are Greek rather than Italian.
