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Kim Novak as Professional
This flick is one of a series of Billy Wilder-directed movies which trace the sexual revolution of the 60's. The Apartment, Irma La Douce, Kiss Me, Stupid, and Avanti all have female roles which were quite shocking at the time. While Shirley MacLaine is not a very convincing hooker in Irma La Douce, Kim Novak is a very attractive prostitute (and sometime waitress) in Kiss Me, Stupid. She's professional: "Get out of here," she tells Ray Walston as she is about to service Dean Martin, "I've got a job to do." She is sentimental, as some working girls are: She happily plays the part of Ray Waltson's wife for a night. She's experienced: Her voice has a husky, worldly, I-know-my-job quality that makes a customer comfortable. She steals the movie, but Felicia Farr and Dean Martin contribute credible performances to support her. Ray Walston, as Felicia Farr's ridiculously jealous husband (he suspects her of cheating with a fourteen year old boy), does his best with an absurd character, but there's nothing of his Singing in the Rain character here. Still, Kim Novak makes this a gem of a movie. Be warned, though. As the trailer says, this movie is for adults only.

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One heck of a hilarious comedy movie
This movie may raise some eyebrows but one must admit its one heck of a hilarious comedy. Very funny script and surprising still funny and not outdated after all these years.
Simply loved it for its superb humor!

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a perverse little comedy
Sex runs rampant throughout Billy Wilder's films. One can only wonder what they would have been like if he had continued past the sexual revolution of the late sixties. As it is, this little set piece of the swinging sixties shows a tolerance, if not sanction, of the stray, recreational encounter, while celebrating the bond of devotion.

Dean Martin and Kim Novak are dead on as the swinging idol and the experienced escort, but the centerpiece of the movie is a loving couple. Ray Walston has been criticized as being too serious and energetic as the jealous husband, a part originally created for Peter Sellers just before a heart attack forced the casting change. Sellers would have added the right comic touch to keep the early jealousy scenes from getting uncomfortably realistic. But this character requires Walston's strong emotional depth to make his sudden love and protection of an imposter wife hired for the id-driven singer believable. Plus, Walston's broadway musical background doesn't hurt when he ends up singing the unfamiliar Gershwin tunes he has supposedly written and is trying to sell to the lusting Dino.

Felicia Farr has the pivotal role of the beautiful wife with a healthy enough spirit to tolerate and correct her husband's foibles, and find a way to support him by indulging in some recreational fulfilment. She is the embodiment of early sixties sophistication.

Good, not great. Better than any sex comedy you are likely to encounter any time soon.