How to Commit Marriage is a 1969 comedy film directed by Norman Panama, featuring Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason in their only movie together. The film also stars Jane Wyman as Hope's wife, Tina Louise as record-producer Gleason's love interest, Leslie Nielsen as the straight man, and Irwin Corey as a middle eastern guru named "The Baba Zeba." Also in the cast is young Tim Matheson making his film debut. This was Jane Wyman's final film appearance. The rock band The Comfortable Chair appears as a hippie rock group, performing their song "A Child's Garden." Nancy, the 19-year-old daughter of... Frank and Elaine Benson, wants to marry David, the 20-year-old son of Oliver Poe. What the bride doesn't know is that her parents are about to get a divorce. Poe, a music promoter, has a hunch something is amiss. He doesn't want the kids to get married, so before the wedding he exposes the Bensons' secret. Nancy and David decide marriage isn't necessary. They will live together instead, travel around the country with a rock band and heed the advice and wisdom of a Hindu mystic called The Baba Zeba. Frank and Elaine are seeing other people.
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| Release date: | 1969 |
| Directed by: | Norman Panama |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 96 Minutes |
| Genre: | Comedy |