Posted: Fri., Dec. 31, 1954, 11:00pm PT

Artists and Models

By Variety Staff

Paramount. Director Frank Tashlin; Producer Hal Wallis; Writer Frank Tashlin, Hal Kanter, Herbert Baker; Camera Daniel L. Fapp Editor Warren Low; Music Walter Scharf

Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Shirley MacLaine Dorothy Malone Eddie Mayehoff Anita Ekberg

Comedic diversion in the Martin and Lewis manner has been put together in this overdone, slaphappy melange of gags and gals. Six writers [three scripters, plus adaptation by Don McGuire from a play by Michael Davidson and Norman Lessing] figure in the production and, while giving the comics a story line to follow, also worked in everything but the proverbial kitchen sink.

Co-starring with the comedy team are Shirley MacLaine and Dorothy Malone. The former tackles her role of model with a bridling cuteness but has a figure to take the viewer's mind off her facial expression. Ditto Dorothy Malone, her artist roommate.

Dean Martin is an artist and Jerry Lewis is a would-be writer of kiddie stories, both starving in NY.

(B&W & Color) Available on VHS, DVD. Extract of a review from 1955. Running time: 108 MIN.