The Art of Love

Infobox Film
name = The Art of Love


image_size = 175px
caption =
director = Norman Jewison
producer = Ross Hunter
writer = Richard Alan Simmons (story)
William Sackheim (story)
Carl Reiner
narrator =
starring = James Garner
Dick Van Dyke
Elke Sommer
Angie Dickinson
Ethel Merman
Carl Reiner
music = Cy Coleman
cinematography = Russell Metty
editing = Milton Carruth
distributor = Universal Studios
released = 1965
runtime = 99 minutes
country = United States
language = English
amg_id = 1:83998
imdb_id = 0058920

"The Art of Love" (1965) is a comedy film starring James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, and Angie Dickinson. The film involves an American artist in Paris (Van Dyke) who fakes his own death in order to increase the worth of his paintings (new paintings keep "posthumously" hitting the market). His conniving pal (Garner) sells the paintings and withholds the proceeds while the artist toils in a shabby garret. Written by Richard Alan Simmons, William Sackheim, and Carl Reiner, and directed by Norman Jewison, the movie also features Carl Reiner and Ethel Merman.

Jewison noted in his autobiography that the film's flaw was that the script assumes that an artist's death guarantees a huge increase in the sales value of his paintings, which doesn't make sense in reality, and that this hurt audiences' responses to the movie enormously.

Cast

*James Garner .... Casey Barnett
*Dick Van Dyke .... Paul Sloane/Toulouse aka Picasso
*Elke Sommer .... Nikki
*Angie Dickinson .... Laurie Gibson
*Ethel Merman .... Madame Coco La Fontaine
*Carl Reiner .... Rodin
*Pierre Olaf .... Carnot
*Miiko Taka .... Chou Chou
*Roger C. Carmel .... Zorgus
*Irving Jacobson .... Mr. Fromkis
*Jay Novello .... Janitor

External links

*imdb title|id=0058920
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8844857220560459276&q=%22James+Garner%22+%22Charlie+Rose%22&total=4&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 James Garner Interview on the "Charlie Rose Show"]
* [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22archive+of+american+television+interview+with+james+garner%22 James Garner interview] at Archive of American Television