What a Way to Go!

What a Way to Go! (1964) starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Bob Cummings, Dick Van Dyke. MacLaine stars as serial widow who marries four different men for love, each of whom ends up dying and leaving her ever richer. All she wants is the simple life, and she tries to give her money away. But this gets her sent to a psychiatrist (Cummings), to whom she narrates her marriages in flashback. Fairly entertaining movie, with film parodies thrown in to enhance the experience, but suspense is nonexistent since we know each husband will die. The four husbands are played by Van Dyke, Newman, Mitchum and Kelly. (English subtitles are available for the hearing-impaired, as well as closed captions.) Grade: B