Artists and Models in 4K

This zany romantic comedy was the fourteenth film to pair iconic comic duo Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, released a year before their professional breakup. Martin plays Rick, a struggling painter, and Lewis is his roommate, Eugene, who is obsessed with a comic book character called Bat Lady. They become entangled with Bat Lady’s creator (Dorothy Malone) and her roommate/model (Shirley MacLaine) in a farcical plot that manages to incorporate government secrets and enemy spies. Frank Tashlin’s background in animation made him the perfect choice to direct this cartoon-infused romp, and he would collaborate often with Lewis after the split with Martin.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.

1956 | 109 min. | USA | Color | English | 4K DCP

DIRECTED BY: Frank Tashlin

WRITTEN BY: Frank Tashlin, Hal Kanter, Herbert Baker

ADAPTATION BY: Don McGuire

WITH: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone