Ten Thousand Bedrooms

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Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957) was Dean Martin's first movie in the wake of the dissolution of his partnership with Jerry Lewis in the team of Martin and Lewis, and was such a notorious bomb that it nearly snuffed his huge film career in one fell swoop. The phalanxes of pundits who'd predicted that Martin was finished without Lewis knew they were right when this film was released. Martin played a hotel magnate intent upon marrying an Italian woman played by Anna Maria Alberghetti, but first has to make sure her older sisters find husbands. Martin's movie career was dramatically rescued the following year with a leading role in The Young Lions opposite Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and Ten Thousand Bedrooms was immediately forgotten.