Artists and Models (1955)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Frank Tashlin

Writers:

Herbert Baker (writer)
Michael Davidson (story)
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Release Date:

7 November 1955 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Plot:

Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis fir a successful comic book.

Plot Keywords:

Comic Book | Dream | Artist | Nightmare | Roommate

Cast

Dean Martin	...	Rick Todd
Jerry Lewis	...	Eugene Fullstack
Shirley MacLaine	...	Bessie Sparrowbrush
Dorothy Malone	...	Abigail 'Abby' Parker
Eddie Mayehoff	...	Mr. Murdock
Eva Gabor	...	Sonia / Mrs. Curtis
Anita Ekberg	...	Anita
George Winslow	...	Richard Stilton (as George 'Foghorn' Winslow')
Jack Elam	...	Ivan
Herbert Rudley	...	Secret Service Chief Samuels
Richard Shannon	...	Secret Service Agent Rogers
Richard Webb	...	Secret Service Agent Peters
Alan Lee	...	Otto
Otto Waldis	...	Kurt
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Nancy Abbate	...	Little Girl (uncredited)
Babette Bain	...	Little Girl (uncredited)
Sharon Baird	...	Dancer (uncredited)
Art Baker	...	Himself - TV Commentator (uncredited)
Margaret Barstow	...	Murdock's Eating Blonde Daughter (uncredited)
Sara Berner	...	Mrs. John Stilton (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks	...	Headwaiter at Fashion Show (uncredited)
Sue Carlton	...	Office Clerk (uncredited)
Frank Carter	...	Stage Manager (uncredited)
Nick Castle	...	Specialty dancer (uncredited)
Clancy Cooper	...	Police officer (uncredited)
Don Corey	...	Man Behind Telescope (uncredited)
Ralph Dumke	...	Mr. Trimm (Kelly's associate) (uncredited)
Mortie Dutra	...	Major General's Aide (uncredited)
Charles Evans	...	Gen. Traynor (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum	...	Man on TV Panel Show (uncredited)
Bess Flowers	...	Stork Club Extra (uncredited)
Kathleen Freeman	...	Mrs. Muldoon (landlady) (uncredited)
Steven Geray	...	Kurt's associate (uncredited)
Dale Hartleben	...	Vulture Boy (uncredited)
Frank Jenks	...	Piano Mover (uncredited)
Frances Lansing	...	Cigarette Girl (uncredited)
Mickey Little	...	Vulture Boy (uncredited)
Rudy Makoul	...	Announcer (uncredited)
Ann McCrea	...	Janet (uncredited)
Eve Meyer	...	Model (uncredited)
Eve Miller	...	(uncredited)
Harold Miller	...	Extra at Fashion Show (uncredited)
Patricia Morrow	...	Zuba Girl (uncredited)
Emory Parnell	...	Mr. Kelly (uncredited)
Joan Petrone	...	Model (uncredited)
Max Power	...	Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
Michael Ross	...	Piano Mover (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre	...	The Bartender (uncredited)
Tommy Summers	...	Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Martha Wentworth	...	(uncredited)
Carleton Young	...	Col. Drury (uncredited)

Directed by
Frank Tashlin

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Herbert Baker		writer
Michael Davidson		story "Rock-A-Bye Baby"
Hal Kanter		writer
Norman Lessing		story "Rock-A-Bye Baby"
Don McGuire		writer
Frank Tashlin		writer

Produced by
Paul Nathan	....	associate producer
Hal B. Wallis	....	producer

Cinematography by
Daniel L. Fapp

Art Direction by
Tambi Larsen
Hal Pereira

Set Decoration by
Sam Comer
Arthur Krams

Costume Design by
Edith Head

Makeup Department
Wally Westmore	....	makeup supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Charles C. Coleman	....	assistant director (as C.C. Coleman Jr.)

Sound Department
Gene Garvin	....	sound recordist
Hugo Grenzbach	....	sound recordist

Special Effects by
Farciot Edouart	....	process photography
John P. Fulton	....	special photographic effects

Editorial Department
Warren Low	....	editorial supervisor
Richard Mueller	....	color consultant: Technicolor

Music Department
Norman Luboff	....	music arranger: vocals
Charles O'Curran	....	musical numbers creator and stager
Walter Scharf	....	conductor
Walter Scharf	....	music arranger

Other crew
Rudy Makoul	....	dialogue coach

Production Companies

• Paramount Pictures

Distributors

• Paramount Pictures (1955) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1974) (USA) (TV) (network premiere)
• Paramount Home Video (1991) (USA) (VHS)

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Finland:S | USA:Unrated | Sweden:Btl

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

Rick Todd's home town is mentioned as Steubendale. Dean Martin's real life birthplace is Steubenville, Ohio.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Rick is painting the lips on the billboard, he looks down to answer his boss, and when he looks back the lips are fully painted.

Quotes:

Eugene Fullstack: No, I'm not cute. They wanted to have me drowned when I was born, but the SPCA stopped them.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The Colgate Comedy Hour: (#6.11)" (1955)

Soundtrack:

Artists and Models

Have fun with Dino and Jerry

Dean Martin plays an artist named Rick Todd and Jerry Lewis is his buddy Eugene Fullstack.Eugene happens to be obsessed with comic books and has very bad dreams because of those.Rick gets an idea to make a comic book from Eugene's dreams.In the same building there lives Abigail Parker (Dorothy Malone), who's the author of Eugene's favorite comic book The Bat Lady and the model Bessie Sparrowbrush (Shirley MacLaine).Rick likes Abby and Bessie likes Eugene.Eddie Mayehoff is a little weird publisher Mr Murdock.Frank Tashlin's Artists and Models (1955) is an awfully funny picture from Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.These two were magnificent together.Also other actors support the main clowns very well.Maclaine and Malone are very pretty and great actresses.Eddie Mayehoff is just hilarious as the publisher.There are also people like Eva Gabor (Zsa Zsa's sister), Anita Ekberg, Jack Elam and Kathleen Freeman.The movie is filled with great actors and funny scenes.There's one where Jerry has to keep running downstairs all the time for the telephone and Jerry on TV with many others.There are also some wonderful musical numbers, like where Shirley sings Innamorata very loud making Jerry freaked and Dean singing with the little girl.There are many scenes to remember.This movie is fifty years old (where did the time go), but it hasn't aged a bit as Jerry Lewis movies never will.Jerry never will.