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The Secret of My Success (Original title)
Dates: 1965 (Copyright), 19 December 1965 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Andrew L. Stone

Synopsis: Comedy of the rise to president of a Latin American country by a village constable with the help of his mother's advice and other women.

Genre:
Comedy

Subject:
Politics
Releases
Date: 1965Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 96 mins Length: 8668 Feet

Credits (26)
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, [Producer]: Andrew L. Stone, Virginia Stone, Production Manager: Tom Sachs, Production Assistant: Americo Leite Rosa, Production Assistant: Maria Eugenia Caldas, Assistant Director: Peter Price, Assistant Director: Ken Ross, [Casting]: Irene Howard, Screenplay: Andrew L. Stone, Director of Photography: Davis Boulton, Camera Operator: Alan McCabe, Supervising Editor: Virginia Stone, Editor: Noreen Ackland, Clothes for Misses J, S & B Designed by: John Cavanagh, Wardrobe Supervisor: Felix Evans, Make-up: Tom Smith, Hairdresser: Joan Smallwood, Special Music Written by: Lucien Cailliet, Music-box Waltz/Bicycle/Guitar Themes by: Christopher Stone, Music Conducted and Supervised by: Roland Shaw, Recording Supervisor: A.W. Watkins, Sound Recording: John Bramall, Dubbing Mixer: Fred Turtle, Studio: MGM British Studios
Cast (20)
Shirley Jones (Marigold Marado), Stella Stevens (Violet Lawson), Honor Blackman (Baroness Lily von Lukenburg), James Booth (Arthur Tate), Lionel Jeffries (Inspector Hobart), Lionel Jeffries (Baron Johan von Lukenberg), Lionel Jeffries (The Earl of Aldershot), Lionel Jeffries (President Esteda), Richard Vernon (Lord Heatherby), Martin Benson (Rex Mansard), Amy Dalby (Mrs Tate), Reginald Beckwith (General Ferdinand Valles), David Davenport (Dr Adams), Nicolau Breyner (Pallazio), Peadar Lamb (.), Ernest Clark (Aldershot's lawyer), Ann Lancaster (Angela Pringle), Bob Harris (.), George Woodbridge ([man in pub]), Robert Barnete ([Colonel Armandez])