How to Murder Your Wife
A confirmed bachelor gets drunk one night and wakes up married to Virna Lisi. Obviously an American tragedy. Richard Quine’s improbable comedy was also a box office hit, mainly because of its star-power; Jack Lemmon plays the wealthy cartoonist (!) who feels trapped by his good fortune and begins to fantasize about murder—his one mistake is using his villainous daydreams as a plot line in his popular comic strip where it will be seen by millions. The always terrific Terry-Thomas plays his woman-hating butler.
About Dr. Z
There are entertainers who only need one name: Sammy, Frank, Cher. To that list you can add Dr. Solomon Francis Zed. Dr. Z has been entertaining audiences for decades with a patented combination of showmanship and pizzaz that Lew Wasserman once described as, “a tall glass of yes with a wow chaser.” After gaining fame with his wildly successful nightclub act, Dr. Z established his acting bona fides on Broadway with a one-man show based on Twelve Angry Men and followed it up with a Tony winning version of The Shining called Overlookin’. On film, he played Abe Lincoln in an extended flashback sequence in The Towering Inferno that ended up on the cutting room floor, but picked up an Oscar the following year playing an arachnophobic priest who faces his fears in the disaster blockbuster Tarantulanche! Never tiring, Dr. Z still bounds out of bed every afternoon to fill any empty spotlight he can find.