page_title: Kiss Me, Stupid
section_title: Cast
hierarchical_section_title: Kiss Me, Stupid / Cast
caption_attribution_description: English: Screenshot from the original 1964 theatrical trailer for the film Kiss Me, Stupid
context_page_description: Kiss Me, Stupid is a 1964 American sex comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder and starring Dean Martin, Kim Novak, and Ray Walston.
  The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the play L'ora della fantasia by Anna Bonacci, which had inspired Wife for a Night, an Italian film starring Gina Lollobrigida. The comic song lyrics were written by Ira Gershwin, using some of George Gershwin's unpublished melodies.
context_section_description: Dean Martin as Dino
  Kim Novak as Polly the Pistol
  Ray Walston as Orville Spooner
  Felicia Farr as Zelda Spooner
  Cliff Osmond as Barney Millsap
  Barbara Pepper as Big Bertha
  Doro Merande as Mrs. Pettibone
  Howard McNear as Mr. Pettibone
  Tommy Nolan as Johnnie Mulligan
  Alice Pearce as Mrs. Mulligan
  John Fiedler as Reverend Carruthers
  Cliff Norton as Mack Gray
  Mel Blanc as Dr. Sheldrake
  Henry Gibson as Smith
caption: (right) Kim Novak
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