[3][4][5] It features many cameos, including those by Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Terry-Thomas, Jayne Mansfield, Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Joey Bishop, Art Carney and Wally Cox.

When in a motel room with a woman who is a wealthy divorced client, Paul hears shouting outside, and when he looks out the window, he sees photographers taking pictures of Ed in bed with Irma.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther called A Guide for the Married Man "the broadest and funniest farce to come out of Hollywood since the Russians came last year", and wrote:What is thoroughly disarming and delightful about this mischievous film is the impudent candor of it and its freedom from the leer.

But this long-married hubby is so retarded in his Immorality (it takes him 12 years to get the seven-year-itch) that, between his natural reluctance and mentor Morse's suggestions (interlarded with warnings against hastiness), he needs the entire film to have his mind made up.

"[10] Pauline Kael of The New Yorker called A Guide for the Married Man "a series of dumb skits", and felt that the famous names in the cast are all wasted: "[W]hat they do is no more memorable than the plugs for brand-name products that are scattered throughout.