What a Way to Go!
“What A Cast!... What A Past!... What A Show!...”
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Studio
APJAC Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How What a Way to Go! performed
Budget
$20.0M
Worldwide Gross
$13.3M
Gross Profit
−$6.7M
Return
0.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$2M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Louisa May Foster
Shirley MacLaine
Louisa May Foster
Larry Flint
Paul Newman
Larry Flint
Rod Anderson Jr.
Robert Mitchum
Rod Anderson Jr.
Leonard Crawley
Dean Martin
Leonard Crawley
Pinky Benson
Gene Kelly
Pinky Benson
Victor Stephanson
Robert Cummings
Victor Stephanson
Edgar Hopper
Dick Van Dyke
Edgar Hopper
Painter
Reginald Gardiner
Painter
Mrs. Foster
Margaret Dumont
Mrs. Foster
Trentino
Lou Nova
Trentino
Baroness
Fifi D'Orsay
Baroness
Rene
Maurice Marsac
Rene
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