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Marriage on the Rocks

Marriage on the Rocks

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Marriage on the Rocks

"Any Number Can Play!"

1965

1h 49m

5.8(14 votes)

Comedy

Romance

Overview

Ad-agency president Dan Edwards goes to Mexico to celebrate his nineteenth wedding anniversary and winds up getting divorced by mistake, whereupon his wife Valerie marries his best friend Ernie Brewer by mistake.

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Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Dan Edwards

Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr

Valerie Edwards

Dean Martin

Dean Martin

Ernie Brewer

Cesar Romero

Cesar Romero

Miguel Santos

Hermione Baddeley

Hermione Baddeley

Jeannie MacPherson

Tony Bill

Tony Bill

Jim Blake

John McGiver

John McGiver

Shad Nathan

Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Sinatra

Tracy Edwards

Davey Davison

Davey Davison

Lisa Sterling

Michel Petit

David Edwards

Creative team

Directed by: Jack Donohue
Written by: Cy Howard
Produced by: William H. Daniels

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