Bedtime Story (1963)
- Starring:
- Marlon Brando, David Niven, (more)
- Director(s):
- Ralph Levy
Synopsis of Bedtime Story
An exercise in "black humor" bordering on the tasteless, Bedtime Story stars Marlon Brando and David Niven as a pair of womanizing confidence tricksters, operating up and down the Riviera. Pooling their talents, Brando and Niven pull off several scams, many of these requiring Brando to pose as a mental or physical defective. Their current "mark" is soap heiress Shirley Jones, who isn't quite as gullible as she seems. The film's highlights-or low points, depending on one's point of view-feature Brando pretending to be a mentally challenged man with a Napoleon complex, and a paraplegic who is "cured" by Jones' love (remember that this is the same actor who so sensitively portrayed a genuine paraplegic in The Men). Created by the same folks who brought you such TV favorites as Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies, Bedtime Story was remade in 1988 as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, with Steve Martin, Michael Caine, and Glenne Headley in the roles originally filled by Brando, Niven and Jones. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Bedtime Story
- Marlon Brando - Freddy Benson
- Shirley Jones - Janet
- Aram Stephan - Andre
- Marie Windsor - Mrs. Sutton
- Frances Robinson - Miss Harrington
- Norman Alden - Dubin
- Cynthia Lynn - Frieda
- Francine York - Gina
- David Niven - Lawrence Jameson
- Dody Goodman - Fanny Eubank
- Parley Baer - Col. Williams
- Rebecca Sand - Miss Trumble
- Henry Slate - Sattler
- Susanne Cramer - Anna
- Ilse Taurins - Hilda
- Director(s):
- Ralph Levy
- Writer(s):
- Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning
- Producer(s):
- Stanley Shapiro
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