Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? ** (1963, Dean Martin, Elizabeth Montgomery, Martin Balsam, Jill St John, Richard Conte, Louis Nye, Macha Méril, Yoko Tani, Allison Hayes) – Classic Movie Review 8585

Director Daniel Mann’s 1963 Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? stars Dean Martin as television actor Jason Steel, whose popularity as a sexy star playing a surgeon on a popular TV show leads to a reputation as a womaniser and his attractive art teacher fiancée Melissa (Elizabeth Montgomery)’s growing unease. The unhappy wives of his best buddies keep popping round to check him out.

Alas it is a typically vacuous swinging Sixties sex comedy. What should have been an undemanding vehicle for Martin becomes a bit of a chore for the viewer when writer-producer Jack Rose’s promised comedy never takes off properly. However, there are some amusing lines and situations, and the cast partly rescues it.

Dino is always good company, and Carol Burnett comes off very creditably as a crazy nurse called Stella Irving, while the good cast also includes Martin Balsam, Jill St John, Richard Conte, Louis Nye, Macha Méril, Yoko Tani and Fifties horror star Allison Hayes, showing a flair for comedy as Mrs Grayson.

Also in the cast are Jack Soo, Dianne Foster, Elliott Reid, Johnny Silver, Elisabeth Fraser, Steve Clinton, Daniel Ocko, James O’Rear, Jay Adler, Douglas Fowley, Nacho Galindo and Steve Peck.

Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? runs 103 minutes, is made by Amro-Claude-Mea, released by Paramount and shot by Joseph Ruttenberg in Technicolor and Panavision.

© Derek Winnert 2019 Classic Movie Review 8585

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