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Bookmark this pageKiss Them for Me (1957)
Director: Stanley Donen
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From Time Out Film Guide
Jayne Mansfield in Kiss Them For Me? Well, tee-hee. But such ribaldry is misplaced: this is a WWII movie, based on Frederic Wakeman's novel Shore Leave, about three combat veterans who wangle a few days in San Francisco, where the skyvers, profiteers and complacent home front types finally send them hastening back in disgust to their buddies on the battle line. This balancing of the cynical and the romantic was really a job for Billy Wilder, just as the part of the embittered, livewire hero cried out for Kirk Douglas. Casting mishaps among the women too, with Mansfield as unable to calm down as Parker is to liven up. Still, worth seeing for its mixture of provocation and Fox gloss, plus other anomalies, like Mansfield in a Rosie the Riveter outfit.Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Stanley Donen
Producer: Jerry Wald
Cast: Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Suzy Parker, Ray Walston, Larry Blyden, Leif Erickson, Harry Carey Jr full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 105 mins
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