Artists and Models

Bearing very little relation to the 1937 Paramount musical of the same name, Artists and Models is a lavish, girl-filled vehicle for the popular team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Martin plays Rick Todd, a comic-book artist who is under fire from his publisher (Eddie Mayehoff), who complains that ...more

Though he arrived at the tail end of their collaboration, with the two films he directed, Frank Tashlin helped end Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' string of film vehicles on a pair of high notes. He did so while finding his own directorial voice -- one, as it turns out, not terribly far removed from the one found in his work as an animator. In addition to its wildly imaginative sight gags, Artists and Models sports a freewheeling, take-all-comers approach to comedy that allowed Tashlin to jump from ...more