Ten Thousand Bedrooms

Infobox_Film
name = Ten Thousand Bedrooms
director = Richard Thorpe
producer = Joe Pasternak
writer = Art Cohn
William Ludwig
Leonard Spigelglass
László Vadnay
starring = Dean Martin
Anna Maria Alberghetti
Eva Bartok
distributor = Loews Inc.
music = Nicholas Brodszky
photographer = Robert J. Bronner
genre = Comedy
released = flagicon|USA March 29, 1957
runtime = 114 min.
language = English| imdb_id = 0051066

"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.

Filming

The filming was filmed in Rome in the spring of 1956 and the remainder was filmed later in autumn in Culver City.

Cast

upervisors

*Musical director: George E. Stoll
*Directing assistant: Robert Saunders
*Montage: John Sweeney Jr.
*Artist director: Randall Duell and William A. Horning

External links

*imdb title|51066|Ten Thousand Bedrooms
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=112897 New York Times article on the movie]