To understand this film, to review this film, you need context. You need to know that the cast of stars, including cameos, was extraordinary even for the day, virtually the entire cast of a Broadway Play. You need to know that most of those cameos were by professionals who had honed their craft in the 1940s and 1950s, and most definitely did not represent the so-called Sexual Revolution of the 60s. These factors constrained the script, forcing it into a template more like a vaudeville show than a movie. Think "SNL's great grandfather." There. With all those factors on the table, it is not a bad movie, funny in parts. With all those actors, it is also a true historical archive. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))
