The Art of Love

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The Art of Love
Directed by	Norman Jewison
Produced by	Ross Hunter
Written by	Richard Alan Simmons (story) William Sackheim (story) Carl Reiner
Starring	James Garner Dick Van Dyke Elke Sommer
Music by	Cy Coleman
Cinematography	Russell Metty
Editing by	Milton Carruth
Release date(s)	1965
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
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The Art of Love is a 1965 comedy film starring James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, and Elke Sommer. The film involves an American artist in Paris (Van Dyke) who fakes his own death in order to increase the worth of his paintings (new paintings keep "posthumously" hitting the market). His conniving pal (Garner) sells the paintings and withholds the proceeds while the artist toils in a shabby garret. Written by Richard Alan Simmons, William Sackheim, and Carl Reiner, and directed by Norman Jewison, the movie also features Angie Dickinson, Carl Reiner, and Ethel Merman. Jewison noted in his autobiography that the film's flaw was that the script assumes that an artist's death guarantees a huge increase in the sales value of his paintings, which doesn't make sense in reality, and that this hurt audiences' responses to the movie enormously.

[edit] Cast

• James Garner .... Casey Barnett
• Dick Van Dyke .... Paul Sloane/Toulouse aka Picasso
• Elke Sommer .... Nikki
• Angie Dickinson .... Laurie Gibson
• Ethel Merman .... Madame Coco La Fontaine
• Carl Reiner .... Rodin
• Pierre Olaf .... Carnot
• Miiko Taka .... Chou Chou
• Roger C. Carmel .... Zorgus
• Irving Jacobson .... Mr. Fromkis
• Jay Novello .... Janitor

[edit] External links

• The Art of Love at the Internet Movie Database
• James Garner Interview on the Charlie Rose Show
• James Garner interview at Archive of American Television

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