The 1964 film "What a Way to Go" is a comedy fantasy film about a woman, Louisa May Foster (Shirley MacLaine) who married four men all of whom were ordinary men who became greedy, then wealthy, died in comical ways, and left her their money. Her first husband owns a department store and, after he becomes wealthy, holds piles of currency and pushes lots of coins from a table into a bag. She imagines her third husband on the cover of Time magazine as a tycoon with a pile of gold coins as a symbol of wealth.

Louisa visits the Washinton DC Internal Revenue Service (the IRS tax collectors) headquarters and presents her check for $211,586,000 to the official, explaining that she does not need the money. The official believes first that she is a joker and then that she is nuts.

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The IRS official sends her to Dr. Victor Stephanson (Bob Cummings), a psychiatrist, and she tells him the story of her life and four marriages. Louisa grew up in a poor religious family whose mother wanted her to marry the local wealthy playboy store owner Leonard Crawley (Dean Martin).

She refuses to marry Leonard, explaining that she wanted an ordinary man to love, marry, and have children with. She meets Edgar Hopper (Dick Van Dyke) who owns a competing small store. Louisa and Edgar marry and first lead simple lives. Edgar becomes greedy, expands his store, buys out Leonard's store, and has piles of cash.

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Edgar also has piles of coins lying on a table.

Edgar pushes the coins into a bag. The coins appear to be either film prop coins or, less likely, real coins. He then collapses in his office leaving Louisa $2,000,000. Louisa flies to Paris, France and meets impoverished modern artist Larry Flint (Paul Newman). After they are married, Larry invents a machine which paints pictures. His paintings become valuable making him wealthy. Eventually his machine turns on him and Louisa receives another fortune. Louise meets Rod Anderson Jr. (Robert Mitchum), a wealthy tycoon who offers to fly her back to New York in his personal airplane. At first she is not interested in him, believing him to be a playboy. Later though she marries him and in bed she reads a Time magazine which has Rod on the cover.

The Time magazine cover shows Rod Anderson with a stack of gold coins on the left. Countries stopped minting gold coins by the early 1930's but they were still a symbol of wealth in 1964. Rod buys a farm and is fatally kicked by a bull leaving Louisa more money. Louisa then meets Pinky Benson (Gene Kelly), a restaurant entertainer who wears a clown costume. They get married and then Pinky is "discovered" by a motion picture official, becomes a movie star, and is trampled by his adoring fans, again leaving Louisa a lot of money. She finishes her life story to Dr. Stephanson who first asks her to marry him and is rejected. He then falls off his special couch.

The doctor survives the fall and the janitor arrives to give him first aid. Louisa realises that the janitor is the right man for her.

Shirley MacLaine as Louisa May Foster
Bob Cummings as Dr. Victor Stephanson
Dean Martin as Leonard Crawley
Dick Van Dyke as Edgar Hopper
Paul Newman as Larry Flint
Robert Mitchum as Rod Anderson Jr.
Gene Kelly as Pinky Benson
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Writers: Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Gwen Davis