“How to Commit Marriage” is a comedy film where Bob Hope and Jane Wyman play a bickering couple who fake a happy marriage in order to adopt their hippie daughter’s out-of-wedlock child. Zany and wacky situations proceed from there, with director Norman Panama (“The Maltese Bippy” 1969) doing an adequate job at the helm of the film, from a so-so screenplay by Michael Kanin and Ben Starr.
“How to Commit Marriage” resembles television sitcom material more than a first class motion picture for theatrical release. It does have value as escapist entertainment, helped out by the top-rate cast that includes Bob Hope, Jane Wyman, Jackie Geason, Leslie Nielsen, Tina Louise, Irwin Corey, Tim Matheson, Maureen Arthur, Paul Stewart, and Joanna Cameron.
This would be the final film for Oscar-winner Jane Wyman, whose movie career started in 1932 when she was an uncredited extra on “A Kid From Spain” starring Eddie Cantor from Samuel Goldwyn Productions. Her television career would go on for many more years, including starring in the CBS nighttime drama “Falcon Crest” in the 1980’s.
“How to Commit Marriage” was not very successful at the box office for Naho Productions and Cinerama Releasing Corporation. It was filmed in the Cinerama method for a curved screen.
How to Commit Marriage (1969)
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My Review
“How to Commit Marriage” is a comedy film where Bob Hope and Jane Wyman play a bickering couple who fake a happy marriage in order to adopt their hippie daughter’s out-of-wedlock child. Zany and wacky situations proceed from there, with director Norman Panama (“The Maltese Bippy” 1969) doing an adequate job at the helm of the film, from a so-so screenplay by Michael Kanin and Ben Starr.
“How to Commit Marriage” resembles television sitcom material more than a first class motion picture for theatrical release. It does have value as escapist entertainment, helped out by the top-rate cast that includes Bob Hope, Jane Wyman, Jackie Geason, Leslie Nielsen, Tina Louise, Irwin Corey, Tim Matheson, Maureen Arthur, Paul Stewart, and Joanna Cameron.
This would be the final film for Oscar-winner Jane Wyman, whose movie career started in 1932 when she was an uncredited extra on “A Kid From Spain” starring Eddie Cantor from Samuel Goldwyn Productions. Her television career would go on for many more years, including starring in the CBS nighttime drama “Falcon Crest” in the 1980’s.
“How to Commit Marriage” was not very successful at the box office for Naho Productions and Cinerama Releasing Corporation. It was filmed in the Cinerama method for a curved screen.