Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
The millionaire hotel owner who sang his way into romantic adventure.
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
- Date of release
- 1957-04-03
- TMDB
- 5.6 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Director
- Richard Thorpe
Casting
- Dean Martin — Ray Hunter
- Anna Maria Alberghetti — Nina Martelli
- Eva Bartok — Maria Martelli
- Walter Slezak — Papa Martelli
- Dewey Martin — Mike Clark
- Paul Henreid — Anton
- Evelyn Varden — Countess Alzani
- John Archer — Bob Dudley
- Dean Jones — Dan
- Jules Munshin — Arthur
- Marcel Dalio — Vittorio Cisini
- Lisa Montell — Diana Martelli
Interesting facts
Ten Thousand Bedrooms is a 1957 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Dean Martin, Anna Maria Alberghetti and Eva Bartok. Shot in Metrocolor and CinemaScope, it was Martin's first film in the wake of the dissolution of his partnership with Jerry Lewis.
Production
Laslo Vadnay wrote the original story “10,000 Bedrooms,” which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased in 1955 and then subsequently assigned him and Dwight Taylor the task of developing it into a screenplay.
The movie was filmed between mid-August and mid-September 1956 in Rome, Italy and then between September 27 and late-October 1956 at M-G-M’s studio in Culver City, California.
Artist director: Randall Duell and William A. Horning
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