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Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957

1957 in film

The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
) was Dean Martin

Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
's first movie in the wake of the dissolution of his partnership with Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
in the team of Martin and Lewis

Martin and Lewis

Martin and Lewis were an United States of America comedy team, comprising singer Dean Martin and comedian Jerry Lewis. The pair first met in 1944; their debut as a duo occurred at Atlantic City, New Jersey's 500 Club on July 24/25, 1946....
, 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

Anna Maria Alberghetti

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Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957

1957 in film

The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
) was Dean Martin

Dean Martin

Jerry Lewis

Martin and Lewis

Anna Maria Alberghetti

Anna Maria Alberghetti is an Italian-born actress and operatic singer.Born in Pesaro she starred on Broadway and won a Tony Awards in 1962 as Best Actress for Carnival ....
, 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
The Young Lions

The Young Lions is a novel by Irwin Shaw and a 1958 film based upon the book starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin....
opposite Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando, Jr. was an Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is widely considered one of the greatest actors of all time, and was named the fourth AFI's 100 Years......
and Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift

Edward Montgomery Clift was an United Statesn film actor. He was known for his brooding, sensitive, working-class character roles, and received four Academy Award nominations during his career....
, and Ten Thousand Bedrooms was immediately forgotten.

Filming

The filming was filmed in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
in the spring of 1956 and the remainder was filmed later in autumn in Culver City

Culver City, California

Culver City is a city in western Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 38,816. The community is mostly surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, but also has a border with unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County....
.

Cast

Actor	Role
Dean Martin Dean Martin Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....	Ray Hunter
Anna Maria Alberghetti Anna Maria Alberghetti Anna Maria Alberghetti is an Italian-born actress and operatic singer.Born in Pesaro she starred on Broadway and won a Tony Awards in 1962 as Best Actress for Carnival ....	Nina Martelli
Eva Bartok Eva Bartok Eva Bartok was an actress born in Budapest, Hungary. She began acting in films in 1950 and her last credited appearance was in 1966. She is best known for appearances in Blood and Black Lace, The Crimson Pirate, Operation Amsterdam, and Ten Thousand Bedrooms....	Maria Martelli
Dewey Martin Dewey Martin (actor) Dewey Martin is an American film and television actor.He was born December 8 1923 in Katemcy, Texas. His film debut was an uncredited part in Knock on Any Door ....	Mike Clark
Walter Slezak Walter Slezak Walter Slezak was an Austrian actor who appeared in numerous Hollywood films. Slezak often portrayed villains or thugs, notably the German U-boat commander in Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 Lifeboat , but occasionally he played lighter roles, as in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, a philosophical detective in Born to Kill , a...	Papa Vittorio Martelli
Paul Henreid Paul Henreid Paul Henreid , whose birthname was Paul Georg Julius Hernried Ritter von Wassel-Waldingau, was an Austrians actor and film director....	Anton
Jules Munshin Jules Munshin Jules Munshin was a song-and-dance man who had made his name on Broadway when he starred in Call Me Mister. Additional Broadway credits include The Gay Life and Barefoot in the Park....	Arthur
Marcel Dalio Marcel Dalio Marcel Dalio, born Israel Moshe Blauschild , was a French Jewish character actor. He had major roles in two of Jean Renoir's most famous films, Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game....	Vittorio Cisini
Evelyn Varden Evelyn Varden Evelyn Varden was an United States Actor.Evelyn Varden had a long and distinguished career on Broadway theatre despite starring in the ill-fated Return Engagement by Lawrence Riley....	Countess Alzani
Lisa Montell	Diana Martelli
Lisa Gaye Lisa Gaye Lisa Gaye was an United States actress, singer and dancer.From a showbusiness family, Lesli Griffin made her first professional appearance aged 7....	Ana Martelli
John Archer John Archer (actor) John Archer was an United States movie and television actor.Born Ralph Bowman in Osceola, Nebraska, Archer moved to California at the age of five....	Bob Dudley
Stephen Dunne Stephen Dunne Stephen Dunne was an United States of America.He was active on television and in films from 1945 to 1973, and was also credited as Steve Dunn, Michael Dunne, Stephan Dunne and Steve Dunne....	Tom Crandall
Dean Jones Dean Jones Dean Jones is the name of:Dean Jones , an Australian cricketerDean Jones , an American actor*Dean Jones , the singer of Extreme Noise Terror...	Dan

Supervisors

Musical director: George E. Stoll
Directing assistant: Robert Saunders
Robert Saunders

Robert Saunders served as in 1859 as mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia....
Montage: John Sweeney Jr.
Artist director: Randall Duell
Randall Duell

Randall Duell was an American architect and art director. Duell attended the University of Southern California School of Architecture and graduated in 1925....
and William A. Horning
William A. Horning

William A. Horning is a multiple Academy Award winner. He was born on November 9, 1904, in Missouri, and died of cancer on March 2, 1959, in Los Angeles, California....

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

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