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    Artists And Models (1954)

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    Artists and Models, which provided the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis duo with its finest screen hour, is a dizzily self-reflexive play on movie illusion.

    Eugene Fullstack (Lewis) is a comic book addict whose colourful dreams are transcribed – and secretly sold – by Rick Todd (Martin). They are mirrored by two women – sultry graphic artist Abby (Dorothy Malone) and ditzy Bessie (Shirley MacLaine).

    Tashlin’s endlessly inventive game of permutation and combination between these four characters builds up to a great piece of burlesque mayhem: Eugene and Bessie’s delirious détournement of the kitsch romantic ballad Inamorata.

    The plot launches without warning into an international espionage intrigue (enter Eva Gabor), and a splendid musical demonstration of image-and-sound artifice (When You Pretend).

    Rick Todd
    Dean Martin
    Eugene Fullstack
    Jerry Lewis
    Bessie Sparrowbrush
    Shirley MacLaine
    Abigail ‘Abby’ Parker
    Dorothy Malone
    Mr Murdock
    Eddie Mayehoff
    Sonia/Mrs Curtis
    Eva Gabor
    Anita
    Anita Ekberg
    Richard Stilton
    George Winslow
    Ivan
    Jack Elam
    Secret Service Chief Samuels
    Herbert Rudley
    Secret Service Agent Rogers
    Richard Shannon
    Secret Service Agent Peters
    Richard Webb
    Otto
    Alan Lee
    Kurt
    Otto Waldis

    Director
    Frank Tashlin

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