Plots(1)
Meet Lucy Dell (Shirley MacLaine), an enormously popular Hollywood comedienne married to movie-maker Paul Robaix. And meet Yoki Mori (also MacLaine), the recently discovered geisha star of Paul's in-progress film version of Madame Butterfly. Paul doesn't know it yet, but that's no geisha - that's his wife! Yves Montand (as Paul), Edward G. Robinson and Bob Cummings join MacLaine in the romantic comedy My Geisha. Paul is eager to prove he can make a hit film without his wife. Lucy, however, wants to prove she can handle a dramatic role. So she secretly follows Paul to Japan, dons a disguise and gives a topsy-turvy spin to this delightful, gorgeously filmed comedy of mistaken identities. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Shirley MacLaine
USA
Best movies:
Barbra: The Concert (1994) (concert)
The Apartment (1960)
Being There (1979)
Yves Montand
Italy
Best movies:
Jean de Florette (1986)
Manon of the Spring (1986)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Edward G. Robinson
Romania
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Robert Cummings
USA
Best movies:
Dial M for Murder (1954)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Kings Row (1942)
Yoko Tani
France
Best movies:
The Spy Who Loved Flowers (1966)
The Savage Innocents (1960)
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)
Alex Gerry
USA
Best movies:
Storm Warning (1951)
Three Little Words (1950)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)