How to Murder Your Wife

Directed by Richard Quine

Written by George Axelrod

Stanley Ford is a successful cartoonist and happily single. That is, until he gets drunk at a friend's bachelor party and impulsively proposes to the beautiful woman who pops out of the cake. Once sober, he regrets the decision, but she won't agree to a divorce. Stanley jokingly vents his frustrations in his comic strip by having the main character kill his wife. But when his actual wife goes missing and Stanley is arrested for her murder, he has a change of heart.

Cast

Jack Lemmon

Stanley Ford

Virna Lisi

Mrs. Ford

Terry-Thomas

Charles

Eddie Mayehoff

Harold Lampson

Claire Trevor

Edna

Sidney Blackmer

Judge Blackstone

Max Showalter

Tobey Rawlins

Jack Albertson

Dr. Bentley

Mary Wickes

Harold's Secretary

Alan Hewitt

District Attorney

Barry Kelley

Club Member

William Bryant

Club Member