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* NeckSnap: Mitchum's character dies by getting kicked into mid-air by his bull and it's assumed the crash impact after hitting the Earth and splashing into a trough broke his neck and claimed his life.

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* NeckSnap: Mitchum's character dies by getting kicked into mid-air by his bull and it's assumed the crash impact after hitting the Earth and splashing into a trough broke his neck (as well as possibly his spine and any other multiple bones in his body) and claimed his life.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Newman's character ends up on the receiving end of this by his painting machines before they explode which claimed his life due to him being within the radius.
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* GoOutWithASmile: Van Dyke's character is [[TheUnsmile technically]] an example of this trope.
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* GroupieBrigade: Causes the death of Kelly's character.

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* GroupieBrigade: Causes the death of Kelly's character.character, trampling and crushing him to death.



* NeckSnap: Mitchum's character dies by getting kicked into mid-air by his cow and it's assumed the crash impact after hitting the Earth and splashing into a trough broke his neck and claimed his life.

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* NeckSnap: Mitchum's character dies by getting kicked into mid-air by his cow bull and it's assumed the crash impact after hitting the Earth and splashing into a trough broke his neck and claimed his life.
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* HollywoodHeartAttack: The possible medical cause of Louisa's first husband's death after overworking himself.


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* NeckSnap: Mitchum's character dies by getting kicked into mid-air by his cow and it's assumed the crash impact after hitting the Earth and splashing into a trough broke his neck and claimed his life.

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* CostumePorn / UnlimitedWardrobe: Especially during the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RGGZmgINQA Mitchum sequence]].

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* CostumePorn / UnlimitedWardrobe: Especially CostumePorn: Louisa runs the gamut during the movie, wearing everything from furs to near-rags. Explicitly parodied during the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RGGZmgINQA Mitchum sequence]].sequence]].
* CoveredInGunge: At the very end of the movie, [[spoiler: Louisa and Leonard end up covered in crude oil, after he accidentally severs an oil company's pipeline with his attempt at farming.]]



* DarkestHour: A sort of anti-HopeSpot occurs at the very end of the film, when as noted above [[spoiler: Leonard appears to have struck oil while attempting to farm, leaving Louisa standing there in despair as she gets drenched with the stuff.. until it turns out he's actually severed an oil company's underground pipeline.]]



* SpitefulWill: Van Dyke's character leaves everything to Louisa, except for a one roll of chicken-wire to the now-bankrupt Leonard, referencing a confrontation between the two earlier on.



* UnlimitedWardrobe: Again, parodied during the Mitchum sequence, with Louisa running through five or six extravagant costume changes in as many minutes.



* {{Workaholic}}: Louisa's first husband becomes one and relentlessly turns his small-town general store into a national business empire. He also dies from overwork.
-->"Which all goes to prove, a little hard work never killed anybody!" ''[thud]''

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* {{Workaholic}}: Louisa's first husband becomes one and relentlessly turns his small-town general store into a national business empire. He also dies from overwork.
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-->"Which all goes to prove, a little hard work [[TemptingFate never killed anybody!" anybody]]!" ''[thud]''
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* ImagineSpot: All of the film-parodies are examples of this on Lousia's part. Also a brief one where she pictures her then-rich boyfriend Leonard as a literal snake behind the wheel of his convertible.

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Famous last words


* FamousLastWords:
** "A little hard work never killed anybody!" [[spoiler: Edgar Hopper]]
** "One hundred and fifty thou!" [[spoiler: Larry Flint]]
** "Melrose! Forgive me!" [[spoiler: Rod Anderson, Jr.]]
** "Look who's here! It's me! It's your Pinky!" [[spoiler: Pinky Benson]]



-->"It just goes to show, a little hard work never killed anybody!" ''[thud]''

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-->"It just -->"Which all goes to show, prove, a little hard work never killed anybody!" ''[thud]''
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* OhCrap: This is the last expression that both Mitchum and Kelly's characters display before their demise.

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* CartwrightCurse: Gender-flipped.

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* CartwrightCurse: Gender-flipped.Gender-flipped and played for BlackComedy with Louisa's curse that has taken multiple husbands already. [[spoiler:It takes, ironically enough, TheJinx to end it.]]



* SpringtimeForHitler: Louisa can't get rid of her money, no matter how hard she tries.

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* SpringtimeForHitler: Louisa can't get rid of her money, no matter how hard she tries. And pretty often her attempts unfortunately end with her husband du jour dead.


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* UnluckilyLucky: Dean Martin's character [[spoiler:and final husband Leonard is an extraordinarily unlucky fellow, but by the end of the film he married Louisa (who is rich so no problem on that end for some time to come... maybe... or at least it isn't by the time the movie ends) and his own immense unluck cancels out her CartwrightCurse.]]
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* ThunderingHerd: Kelly's character gets trampled to death by one.
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* KillerRobot: A group of them ''paint'' Newman's character to death.

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* KillerRobot: A group of them ''paint'' Newman's character to death.death....and explode.

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* CostumePorn / UnlimitedWardrobe: Especially during the Mitchum sequence.

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* CostumePorn / UnlimitedWardrobe: Especially during the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RGGZmgINQA Mitchum sequence.sequence]].


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* {{Fanservice}}: Louisa wears a lot of outfits that show off her figure.


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* GoldDigger: Averted with Louisa, to her money grubbing mother's chagrin, she just wants a simple life with a husband and children but ends up marrying men who became wealthier and distracted from the marriage and it ends up killing them.


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* SexyBacklessOutfit: Parodied in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RGGZmgINQA Lush Budgett production]] scene where Louisa reveals a lot of back with a ridiculously long cigarette holder.
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''What a Way to Go!'' is a 1964 comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process.

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''What a Way to Go!'' is a 1964 comedy BlackComedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process.

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''What a Way to Go!'' is a 1964 comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process. As she relates her life-history to a psychiatrist, each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Creator/DickVanDyke as a silent movie, Creator/PaulNewman as a pretentious French film, Creator/RobertMitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster and Creator/GeneKelly as a musical. And then there's Music/DeanMartin's Leonard Crawley...

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''What a Way to Go!'' is a 1964 comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process.

As she Louisa relates her life-history to a psychiatrist, each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Creator/DickVanDyke as a silent movie, Creator/PaulNewman as a pretentious French film, Creator/RobertMitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster and Creator/GeneKelly as a musical. And then there's Music/DeanMartin's Leonard Crawley...
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* GoOutWithASmile: Van Dyke's character is [[TheUnsmile technically]] an example of this trope.

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* {{Workaholic}}: "It just goes to show, a little hard work never killed anybody!" ''[thud]''

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* {{Workaholic}}: "It Louisa's first husband becomes one and relentlessly turns his small-town general store into a national business empire. He also dies from overwork.
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just goes to show, a little hard work never killed anybody!" ''[thud]''
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* GroupieBrigade: Causes the death of Kelly's character via CrushParade.

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* GroupieBrigade: Causes the death of Kelly's character via CrushParade.character.
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''What A Way To Go!'' is a 1964 comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process. As she relates her life-history to a psychiatrist, each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Creator/DickVanDyke as a silent movie, Creator/PaulNewman as a pretentious French film, Creator/RobertMitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster and Creator/GeneKelly as a musical. And then there's Music/DeanMartin's Leonard Crawley...

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''What A a Way To to Go!'' is a 1964 comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process. As she relates her life-history to a psychiatrist, each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Creator/DickVanDyke as a silent movie, Creator/PaulNewman as a pretentious French film, Creator/RobertMitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster and Creator/GeneKelly as a musical. And then there's Music/DeanMartin's Leonard Crawley...

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'''What A Way To Go!''' is a 1964 comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process. As she relates her life-history to a psychiatrist, each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Creator/DickVanDyke as a silent movie, Creator/PaulNewman as a pretentious French film, Creator/RobertMitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster and Creator/GeneKelly as a musical. And then there's Music/DeanMartin's Leonard Crawley...

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'''What ''What A Way To Go!''' Go!'' is a 1964 comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process. As she relates her life-history to a psychiatrist, each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Creator/DickVanDyke as a silent movie, Creator/PaulNewman as a pretentious French film, Creator/RobertMitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster and Creator/GeneKelly as a musical. And then there's Music/DeanMartin's Leonard Crawley...
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'''What A Way To Go!''' is a 1964 comedy film directed by Creator/JLeeThompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process. As she relates her life-history to a psychiatrist, each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Creator/DickVanDyke as a silent movie, Creator/PaulNewman as a pretentious French film, Creator/RobertMitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster and Creator/GeneKelly as a musical. And then there's Music/DeanMartin's Leonard Crawley...

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'''What A Way To Go!''' is a 1964 comedy film directed by Creator/JLeeThompson J. Lee Thompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process. As she relates her life-history to a psychiatrist, each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Creator/DickVanDyke as a silent movie, Creator/PaulNewman as a pretentious French film, Creator/RobertMitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster and Creator/GeneKelly as a musical. And then there's Music/DeanMartin's Leonard Crawley...
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'''What A Way To Go!''' is a 1964 comedy film directed by Creator/JLeeThompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process. As she relates her life-history to a psychiatrist, each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Creator/DickVanDyke as a silent movie, Creator/PaulNewman as a pretentious French film, Creator/RobertMitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster and Creator/GeneKelly as a musical. In the end [[spoiler:she marries Music/DeanMartin's Leonard Crawley, who is saved from death by being a complete and glorious failure in everything he attempts besides that marriage.]]

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'''What A Way To Go!''' is a 1964 comedy film directed by Creator/JLeeThompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process. As she relates her life-history to a psychiatrist, each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Creator/DickVanDyke as a silent movie, Creator/PaulNewman as a pretentious French film, Creator/RobertMitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster and Creator/GeneKelly as a musical. In the end [[spoiler:she marries And then there's Music/DeanMartin's Leonard Crawley, who is saved from death by being a complete and glorious failure in everything he attempts besides that marriage.]]
Crawley...



* BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler: Leonard, who is such a failure at life that even Louisa's husband-killing "curse" can't affect him.]]



* EverythingsBetterWithCows: An angry bull is the cause of Mitchum's character's death [[spoiler: after he tries to milk it.]]
* [[spoiler: FirstGirlWins: Another gender-flip, with Leonard being Louisa's original hometown boyfriend.]]

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* EverythingsBetterWithCows: An angry bull is the cause of Mitchum's character's death [[spoiler: after he drunkenly tries to milk it.]]
* [[spoiler: FirstGirlWins: Another gender-flip, [[spoiler: with Leonard being Louisa's original hometown boyfriend.]]



* GroupieBrigade: Causes the death of Kelly's character.

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* GroupieBrigade: Causes the death of Kelly's character.character via CrushParade.



* KillerRobot: A group of them ''paint'' Newman's character to death.



* SanitySlippage: The guy who has been hired to do all the painting mentioned under LogoJoke starts chasing after Louisa because she's NOT PINK!
* {{Slapstick}}: The film indulges in this a few time, such as when Louisa almost falls off the elevated Freudian Couch.



* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Louisa, who can't offer even the tiniest and most well-meaning suggestion or advice without it somehow snowballing into killing her current husband.

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Louisa, who can't offer even the tiniest and most well-meaning suggestion or bit of advice without it somehow snowballing into killing her current husband.
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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: One of the signs that Louisa and Leonard's marriage will actually last..]]

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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: One of the signs that Louisa and Leonard's marriage will actually last..last.]]



* EverythingsBetterWithCows: An angry bull is the cause of Mitchum's character's death.

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* EverythingsBetterWithCows: An angry bull is the cause of Mitchum's character's death.death [[spoiler: after he tries to milk it.]]
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* [[spoiler: FirstGirlWins: Another gender-flip, with Leonard being Louisa's original hometown boyfriend.]]


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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Louisa, who can't offer even the tiniest and most well-meaning suggestion or advice without it somehow snowballing into killing her current husband.

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'''What A Way To Go!''' is a 1964 comedy film directed by Creator/JLeeThompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process. As she relates her life-history to a psychiatrist, each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Creator/DickVanDyke as a silent movie, Creator/RobertMitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster, Creator/PaulNewman as a pretentious French film and Creator/GeneKelly as a musical. In the end [[spoiler:she marries Music/DeanMartin's Leonard Crawley, who is saved from death by being a complete and glorious failure in everything he attempts besides that marriage.]]

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'''What A Way To Go!''' is a 1964 comedy film directed by Creator/JLeeThompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process. As she relates her life-history to a psychiatrist, each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Creator/DickVanDyke as a silent movie, Creator/PaulNewman as a pretentious French film, Creator/RobertMitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster, Creator/PaulNewman as a pretentious French film blockbuster and Creator/GeneKelly as a musical. In the end [[spoiler:she marries Music/DeanMartin's Leonard Crawley, who is saved from death by being a complete and glorious failure in everything he attempts besides that marriage.]]


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* EverythingsBetterWithCows: An angry bull is the cause of Mitchum's character's death.
* FreudianCouch: Louisa lays on one while telling her life-story.


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* InsufferableGenius: Newman and Kelly's characters both come to embody this trope.
* LogoJoke: The 20th Century Fox logo is pink, because Kelly's character has ''everything'' painted that color.

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* AllStarCast


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'''What A Way To Go!''' is a 1964 comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process. Each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Dick Van Dyke as a silent movie, Robert Mitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster, Paul Newman as a pretentious French film and Gene Kelly as a musical. In the end [[spoiler:she marries Dean Martin, who is saved from death by being a glorious failure in everything he attempts besides that marriage.]]

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'''What A Way To Go!''' is a 1964 comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson Creator/JLeeThompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process. Each As she relates her life-history to a psychiatrist, each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Dick Van Dyke Creator/DickVanDyke as a silent movie, Robert Mitchum Creator/RobertMitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster, Paul Newman Creator/PaulNewman as a pretentious French film and Gene Kelly Creator/GeneKelly as a musical. In the end [[spoiler:she marries Dean Martin, Music/DeanMartin's Leonard Crawley, who is saved from death by being a complete and glorious failure in everything he attempts besides that marriage.]]

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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: One of the signs that Louisa and Leonard's marriage will actually last..]]



* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Each of the husband's deaths.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Each of the husband's husbands' deaths.



* {{Workaholic}}: "A little hard work never killed anybody!" ''[thud]''

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* {{Workaholic}}: "A "It just goes to show, a little hard work never killed anybody!" ''[thud]''
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'''What A Way To Go!''' is a 1964 comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Creator/ShirleyMacLaine as Louisa May Foster, an unwilling BlackWidow who falls in love with, marries and loses four husbands through the course of the movie, amassing an unwanted and ever-expanding fortune in the process. Each of her marriages is depicted as a parody of a different film genre: with Dick Van Dyke as a silent movie, Robert Mitchum as a Hollywood romantic blockbuster, Paul Newman as a pretentious French film and Gene Kelly as a musical. In the end [[spoiler:she marries Dean Martin, who is saved from death by being a glorious failure in everything he attempts besides that marriage.]]

!!Contains the following tropes:

* AllStarCast
* CartwrightCurse: Gender-flipped.
* CostumePorn / UnlimitedWardrobe: Especially during the Mitchum sequence.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Each of the husband's deaths.
* GroupieBrigade: Causes the death of Kelly's character.
* SpringtimeForHitler: Louisa can't get rid of her money, no matter how hard she tries.
* {{Workaholic}}: "A little hard work never killed anybody!" ''[thud]''

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