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Who Was That Lady?

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After he's caught kissing one of his co-eds, college professor David Wilson (Tony Curtis) is given marching orders by his livid wife, Ann (Janet Leigh). In order to avoid divorce, David concocts an elaborate alibi with his TV writer buddy (Dean Martin) : he claims to have been on an undercover mission for the FBI and that the kiss was crucial to his mission. With the help of a few props, Ann believes her husband's tall tale completely. And that's when his problems start.

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Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine 12/03/2019
Many a promising comedy begins with a good basic idea but squanders itself in frenzied overexertion. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 10/05/2010
C+
It stretches more comedy than one could expect from such thin material, and passes as a so-so comedy vehicle for the appealing stars. Go to Full Review
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01/17/2022 Ann Wilson (Janet Leigh) has caught her chemistry professor husband David Wilson (Tony Curtis) kissing one of his transfer students. He thinks it was innocent, she wants a divorce. So instead of working through their issues, David gets his friend Michael Haney (Dean Martin) to come up with a story to get out of it. And that story? David is a secret agent. Ann falls for it and this enables Michael to get what he's always wanted, which is his wingman back, so he makes a date with the Coogle sisters (Barbara Nichols and Joi Lansing, both rivals of Marilyn Monroe). As for Ann, she can't stop bragging about her husband being a secret agent, which means that the real FBI, CIA and even KGB all get involved. There's a great cameo by Jack Benney, as Michael is a TV writer, and Cicely Tyson shows up in a very early role. And beyond Larry Storch being in this, so is Emil Sitka. Director George Sidney is probably best known for Pal Joey, Show Boat and Bye, Bye Birdie. He lends a great touch to this film, which is really worth seeing for its three leads. Martin seems to be having a great time in every scene he's in. There's some irony in that when True Lies, a movie with a similar concept, was made years later, the wife was played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. See more steve d 07/20/2020 nowhere near as amusing as it should be. See more ashley h @ashleyhobgood87 12/21/2018 Who Was That Lady is a disappointing film. It is about a young chemistry professor who concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. Tony Curtis and Dean Martin give horrible performances. The screenplay is badly written. George Sidney did a terrible directing this movie. I was not impressed with this motion picture. See more 08/31/2016 another marital misunderstanding that snowballs into a spy plot See more 09/29/2015 ???? ?? ?????? ???????? ????? ? ??????? ????????????, ?? ?????????? ? ????????? "??? ???? ??? ?????". ????? ?????-?????, ?????? ? 1960 ???? ?????????? ???????? ?????. ? ?????? ????????????? ?????? ?????? ????????. ??? ???? ??????, (???? ??? ?? ??????, ?? ???? ?? ??????? ?????? ?????? "? ????? ?????? ???????"), ????????????? ????????-???????? ????? ??? ?????? ? ????????????????? ?????? ??. ??? ????? ? ??????????? ??????? ????? ??????, ????? ????? ???? ?????? ?? ? ???? ??????? ??????? ?????? ?? ?????? ? ?????? "????????? ????" ?????? ???? ?????? ???, ????????? ?????? ???? ??????? ???????. ? ???? ?????? ??? ?????????, ???? ??? ??????? ?????? ???????????, ??? ????????? ??? ?? ?????? ??????. ????????????? ???????, ???????? ????? , ????????? ??????. ????, ????????, ?????? - ??? ???? ? ???? ??????. See more 01/31/2012 Thin comedy put over by the stars. Tony comes off best as a basically good guy caught up in a situation that gets out of hand but Janet's character comes across as a borderline idiot and Dino is a pretty much a sexist slime. A space filler for all three, this was between Some Like it Hot and Spartacus for Tony, Rio Bravo and Bells are Ringing for Dean and Janet's next two films were Psycho followed by The Manchurian Candidate so this was easily left behind by all. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis After he's caught kissing one of his co-eds, college professor David Wilson (Tony Curtis) is given marching orders by his livid wife, Ann (Janet Leigh). In order to avoid divorce, David concocts an elaborate alibi with his TV writer buddy (Dean Martin) : he claims to have been on an undercover mission for the FBI and that the kiss was crucial to his mission. With the help of a few props, Ann believes her husband's tall tale completely. And that's when his problems start.
Director
George Sidney
Producer
Norman Krasna
Screenwriter
Norman Krasna
Production Co
Ansark-Sidney
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 8, 1960, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 25, 2018
Runtime
1h 55m