How to Commit Marriage is a 1969 comedy film directed by Norman Panama, featuring Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason in their only movie together. The film also stars Jane Wyman as Hope's wife, Tina Louise as record-producer Gleason's love interest, Leslie Nielsen as the straight man, and Irwin Corey as a middle eastern guru named 'The Baba Zeba'. Also in the cast is young Tim Matheson making his film debut.
The rock band The Comfortable Chair made its ...
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How to Commit Marriage is a 1969 comedy film directed by Norman Panama, featuring Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason in their only movie together. The film also stars Jane Wyman as Hope's wife, Tina Louise as record-producer Gleason's love interest, Leslie Nielsen as the straight man, and Irwin Corey as a middle eastern guru named 'The Baba Zeba'. Also in the cast is young Tim Matheson making his film debut.
The rock band The Comfortable Chair made its film debut in this Bob Hope - Jackie Gleason comedy vehicle movie, and really shines in the film as a psychedelic-hippie rock band associated with the young people in the plot of the story. This fantastic group did a wonderful music video-style presentation in the film, performing their charming hippie anthem, A Child's Garden.
This movie is sort of a 1969 time-capsule of the establishment stars and their situations being confronted with the hippie flower-power movement, often with hilarious results, such as Bob Hope dressed in a Nehru jacket...
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