My Geisha

Mar 9, 1962

2h 0m

★ 6.7

It's the WACKIEST HOAX That Ever Turned the Screen Hilarious!

Overview

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...

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Sachiko

Paramount Pictures

My Geisha Trailers

Cast

Lucy Dell / Yoko Mori

Shirley MacLaine

Paul Robaix

Yves Montand

Sam Lewis

Edward G. Robinson

Bob Moore

Robert Cummings

Kazumi Ito

Yoko Tani

Kenichi Takata

Tatsuo Saitō

Leonard Lewis

Alex Gerry

Amatsu Hisako

Tamae Kiyokawa

Hisako

Ichirô Hayakawa

Shiga

Tsugundo Maki

Machiko Soga

George (uncredited)

George Furness

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