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About the Film

Year

1962

Rating

NR

Genre

Comedy

Running Time

120 MIN

Synopsis

Who's that mysterious Oriental beauty? It's Shirley MacLaine! Meet Lucy Dell (Shirley MacLaine), an enormously popular Hollywood comedienne married to movie-maker Paul Robaix. And meet Yoki Mori (also MacLaine), the recently discovered geisha star of Paul's in-progress film version of Madame Butterfly. Paul doesn't know it yet, but that's no geisha - that's his wife! Yves Montand (as Paul), Edward G. Robinson and Bob Cummings join MacLaine in the romantic comedy My Geisha. Paul is eager to prove he can make a hit film without his wife. Lucy, however, wants to prove she can handle a dramatic role. So she secretly follows Paul to Japan, dons a disguise and gives a topsy-turvy spin to this delightful, gorgeously filmed comedy of mistaken identities.

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Where to Watch

Digital

About the Cast

Shirley MacLaine

Lucy Dell/Yoko Mori

Yves Montand

Paul Robaix

Edward G. Robinson

Sam Lewis

Robert Cummings

Bob Moore

Yoko Tani

Kazumi Ito

About the Crew

Director

Jack Cardiff

Producer

Steve Parker

Writer

Norman Krasna

Music Scoring

Franz Waxman