| The Art of Love | |
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| Directed by | Norman Jewison |
| Screenplay by | Carl Reiner |
| Story by | Richard Alan Simmons William Sackheim |
| Produced by | Ross Hunter |
| Starring | James Garner Dick Van Dyke Elke Sommer Angie Dickinson Ethel Merman Carl Reiner |
| Cinematography | Russell Metty |
| Edited by | Milton Carruth |
| Music by | Cy Coleman |
Production companies | Cherokee Productions Ross Hunter Productions |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3,500,000 (US/ Canada rentals)[1] |
The Art of Love is a 1965 technicolor comedy film directed by Norman Jewison and starring James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, and Angie Dickinson.
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.
The picture was written by Carl Reiner (from a story by Richard Alan Simmons and William Sackheim). The supporting cast features 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. That hurt audiences' responses to the movie enormously.[2]
All of the paintings that were used in the movie were the work of international artist Don Cincone.
- ^ This figure consists of anticipated rentals accruing distributors in North America. See "Big Rental Pictures of 1965", Variety, 5 January 1966 p 6
- ^ Norman Jewison (2005). This terrible business has been good to me. Internet Archive. T. Dunne Books. ISBN 978-0-312-32868-9.