Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...
Shirley MacLaine
as Lucy Dell / Yoko Mori
Yves Montand
as Paul Robaix
Edward G. Robinson
as Sam Lewis
Robert Cummings
as Bob Moore
Yoko Tani
as Kazumi Ito
斎藤達雄
as Kenichi Takata
Alex Gerry
as Leonard Lewis
清川玉枝
as Amatsu Hisako
Ichirô Hayakawa
as Hisako
Tsugundo Maki
as Shiga
曽我町子
as
George Furness
as George (uncredited)
