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Director:
Michael Curtiz
Writers:
Walter Bernstein (adaptation)
Sidney Howard (English translation of "Olympia")
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Release Date:
28 April 1961 (Finland) more
Genre:
Drama | Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
Once Upon a Night She Started More Than Just a Breath of Scandal more
User Comments:
Rather turgid fairy tale, with minor compensations... more

Cast

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Sophia Loren ... Princess Olympia

Maurice Chevalier ... Prince Philip
John Gavin ... Charlie Foster

Angela Lansbury ... Countess Lina
Isabel Jeans ... Princess Eugénie
Tullio Carminati ... Albert
Milly Vitale ... Can-Can girl
Carlo Hinterman ... Prince Ruprecht
Roberto Risso ... Aide de camp
Friedrich von Ledebur ... Count Sandor
Adrienne Gessner ... Amelia
Luigi Cimara
Waveney Lee
Walter Varndal
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Olympia (Italy)
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Runtime:
97 min
Country:
Italy | Austria | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Australia:G | Argentina:Atp | Finland:S | Portugal:17 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:U (video rating) (2005)

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Movie Connections:
Version of Olympia (1930) more
Soundtrack:
A Smile in Vienna more

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Rather turgid fairy tale, with minor compensations..., 18 June 2008
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Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

Sophia Loren--in a succession of lavish gowns, her hair tinted a honey-brown--looks every inch the princess in this surface-pretty remake of 1929's "His Glorious Night", adapted from Molnar's play "Olimpia". An American businessman from Pittsburg travels overseas and falls in love with mercurial royalty from Ruritania; she has breached protocol by even being seen with this "peasant", so in order to keep him quiet she agrees to spend a weekend with him in the country. Wily Maurice Chevalier, as Sophia's father, gets to sing a little and make eyes at the ladies, and his polished comic timing is a welcome relief to the empty, useless bantering of the young lovers. As Loren's gallant guy, stiff John Gavin talks as if he's being dubbed by a ventriloquist (he has no music in his voice). Sophia doesn't have the witty lines of the older players (nor that of Angela Lansbury as a competitive Countess), though she gives more to this puff-piece than most actresses would have. A few funny lines do lighten the load, yet it's largely forgettable. ** from ****

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