A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" that's destined to fail, thus giving him some major tax breaks.
Acting
Jayne Mansfield doing whatever Jayne Mansfield does
Production
Romeo and Juliet reimagined as a beach musical disaster
Director
George Sherman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of Jayne Mansfield's final films before her tragic death in 1967; she was already transitioning away from her blonde bombshell image.
The tax shelter scheme was ripped from actual 1960s Hollywood practices — studios really did finance 'prestige' flops to write off losses.
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