May 26 movie: Marriage on the Rocks. This one wasn't deliriously awful; just awful. Frank Sinatra and Deborah Kerr are an older married couple who are completely sick of each other, and Dean Martin is their best friend. They go to Mexico for a second honeymoon, and in a snit get a quickie divorce. Then they decide to get remarried, but through circumstances too wacky to describe she ends up accidently marrying Dino instead.
At this point everyone in the movie stops acting like a lovably annoying jerk, and starts acting like a repulsive asshole. Sinatra, Kerr, Dino, their kids, Kerr's mother: everyone is a complete tool. You might be able to tell that I didn't much care for Marriage on the Rocks. In the introduction Nancy Sinatra said that the government of Mexico was so offended by this movie that Frank was banned from the country after its release. He had a house in Acapulco that he was no longer able to visit. When she said that Georg and I were like, what the??? Then they got to the scenes set in Mexico, and Georg turned to me and said "Gee, I wonder why the Mexican government found this offensive?"
Hey pallie Sarah, long time no Dinohear from...the problem with
"Marriage On The Rocks" is the frankie and deborah...both way miscast
....if some one like Pete Lawford and Pet Clark had been cast they
woulda been so cool with our Dino....