Ten Thousand Bedrooms
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| Ten Thousand Bedrooms | |
| Directed by | Richard Thorpe |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Joe Pasternak |
| Written by | Art Cohn William Ludwig Leonard Spigelglass László Vadnay |
| Starring | Dean Martin Anna Maria Alberghetti Eva Bartok |
| Distributed by | M-G-M music = Nicholas Brodszky |
| Release date(s) |  March 29, 1957 |
| Running time | 114 min. |
| Language | English |
Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957) was Dean Martin's first movie in the wake of the dissolution of his partnership with Jerry Lewis in the team of Martin and Lewis, and was such a notorious bomb that it nearly snuffed his huge film career in one fell swoop. The phalanxes of pundits who'd predicted that Martin was finished without Lewis knew they were right when this film was released. Martin played a hotel magnate intent upon marrying an Italian woman played by Anna Maria Alberghetti, but first has to make sure her older sisters find husbands. Martin's movie career was dramatically rescued the following year with a leading role in The Young Lions opposite Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and Ten Thousand Bedrooms was immediately forgotten.
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[edit] Filming
The filming was filmed in Rome in the spring of 1956 and the remainder was filmed later in autumn in Culver City.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Dean Martin | Ray Hunter |
| Anna Maria Alberghetti | Nina Martelli |
| Eva Bartok | Maria Martelli |
| Dewey Martin | Mike Clark |
| Walter Slezak | Papa Vittorio Martelli |
| Paul Henreid | Anton |
| Jules Munshin | Arthur |
| Marcel Dalio | Vittorio Cisini |
| Evelyn Varden | Countess Alzani |
| Lisa Montell | Diana Martelli |
| Lisa Gaye | Ana Martelli |
| John Archer | Bob Dudley |
| Stephen Dunne | Tom Crandall |
| Dean Jones | Dan |
[edit] Supervisors
- Musical director: George E. Stoll
- Directing assistant: Robert Saunders
- Montage: John Sweeney Jr.
- Artist director: Randall Duell and William A. Horning
