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What a Way to Go! is a american film of genre Comedy directed by John Flynn released in USA on 12 may 1964 with Shirley MacLaine
What a Way to Go! (1964)
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Add to a movie listWhat a Way to Go! is a 1964 American black comedy directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Bob Cummings and Dick Van Dyke.
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In a dream-like pre-credit sequence, Louisa May Foster (Shirley MacLaine), dressed as a black-clad widow, descends a pink staircase in a pink mansion. As she reaches the bottom, she is followed by pall-bearers carrying a pink coffin. As they round the bend in the staircase, the pallbearers drop the coffin, which sleds down the stairs, leading into the opening titles.Actors
Shirley MacLaine
(Louisa May Foster)
Paul Newman
(Larry Flint)
Robert Mitchum
(Rod Anderson Jr.)
Dean Martin
(Leonard Crawley)
Gene Kelly
(Pinky Benson)
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