But Robert Morse, his best friend, explains that it isn't as simple as that. The idea is that good old shaggy-faced Walter Matthau is a husband who wants to run out on his wife. So I suppose I should have been prepared for 'A Guide for the Married Man,' but I wasn't. the first time, even the directors had bit parts. Even the dog was played by Lassie.īut then Charles Feldman made ' Casino Royale' (1967), and all the odds had to be changed. There was a guest star in every single bit part. So anyway, for a long time I thought 'Is Paris Burning?' was the worst offender of all time. We may know it's Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Jean-Paul Belmondo may know it's Jean-Paul Belmondo, but Charles Boyer and Maurice Chevalier think it's only another traffic cop. And so we have had movie after movie in which famous stars have coyly driven taxis, walked dogs, jerked sodas and fallen out of airplanes.
