My Geisha

6.6

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...

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Shirley MacLaine

Lucy Dell / Yoko Mori

Yves Montand

Paul Robaix

Robert Cummings

Bob Moore

Yoko Tani

Kazumi Ito

Tatsuo Saitō

Kenichi Takata

Alex Gerry

Leonard Lewis

Tamae Kiyokawa

Amatsu Hisako

George Furness

George (uncredited)

Art

Makoto Kikuchi

Art Direction

Arthur Lonergan

Art Direction

Hal Pereira

Art Direction

Camera

Stanley W. Sayer

Second Unit Director of Photography

Shunichirō Nakao

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Wally Westmore

Makeup Supervisor

Frank Westmore

Makeup Supervisor

Shu Uemura

Makeup Supervisor

Junjirō Yamada

Wig Designer

Edith Head

Costume Design

Directing

Jack Cardiff

Director

Harry Kratz

Assistant Director

Ikuo Kobayashi

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Harry Caplan

Production Manager

Steve Parker

Producer

Sound

Charles Grenzbach

Sound Recordist

Harold Lewis

Sound Recordist

Leonid Raab

Orchestrator

Franz Waxman

Conductor

Franz Waxman

Original Music Composer

Writing

Norman Krasna

Screenplay