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My Geisha

  • March 1962
  • 2hrs

  • Comedy
  • Romance
  • Directed by

    Jack Cardiff,

    Starring

    Shirley MacLaine,

    Yves Montand,

    Edward G. Robinson,

    Robert Cummings

    ...

    Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...