Cinema: Teamwork

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Promise Her Anything. Shortly after splashing headlines last year as offscreen lovers in an unsavory divorce action, Leslie Caron and Warren Beatty pooled their talents in a sex farce. Surprisingly enough, it is an amiable, entertaining fiction and nowhere near so scandalous as life itself. As a young French widow with an infant son, Leslie oozes gamine charm in the direction of her boss, Robert Cummings, a child psychiatrist who sucks his thumb under stress. Beatty, in his first light comedy role, shows an unexpected flair for foolishness as Leslie's Greenwich Village neighbor, baby sitter and maker of stag films. "My movies are not even a felony," Warren insists. "They're only a misdemeanor."

The most critical moment in Promise follows Leslie's discovery that her tyke has secretly made his movie debut opposite a Junoesque redhead in a wild bikini. Such rancid twists of plot could easily sour a comedy, except that the kid is a disarming moppet named Michael Bradley who saves his heartiest responses for a pile of red plastic blocks. Warren saves his for Leslie, and most of the fun is as simple as that.