I Married a Woman

I Married a Woman is a 1958 American comedy film made in 1956, directed by Hal Kanter, written by Goodman Ace, and starring George Gobel, Diana Dors, and Adolphe Menjou.

[3] Advertising executive Mickey Briggs is given 48 hours by his boss, Sutton, to come up with a campaign for client Luxemberg Beer, and save the company from ruin.

Mickey neglects his wife, Janice, who once had been a "Miss Luxemberg" in a successful advertising campaign featuring various attractive models.

In April 1956, Diana Dors signed to play the female lead opposite TV star George Gobel.

[17] A contemporary review by Howard Thompson in The New York Times reported that the film was a "thin little comedy" that "laboriously widens one running gag to feature length."

Describing Dors as "pouting [and] blank-faced," Thompson also noted that "the task of stretching what might have made a pretty good fifteen-minute television sketch into eighty-four minutes just about licks everybody.

"[18] Writing in AllMovie, film critic Hal Erickson described the film as "tailored by top comedy writer Goodman Ace to the peculiar, low-key talents of TV comedian George Gobel," and noted that it "was lensed in black-and-white, except for the Technicolor [unbilled] John Wayne sequences.

"[19] Film critic Dennis Schwartz wrote that "mediocre director Hal Kanter [...] is clueless how to draw comedy out of the unfunny screenplay," that "George Gobel and Britain’s sexpot answer to Marilyn Monroe, Diana Dors [...] lacked chemistry together," and that "even for TV comedy this stuff is awful.

Diana Dors in I Married a Woman film trailer