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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Gavin Lambert (writer)
Jan Read (additional writing)
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Release Date:
28 December 1961 (USA) more
Plot:
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination more
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Unique and beautiful. more (31 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Vivien Leigh | ... | Karen Stone |
 | Warren Beatty | ... | Paolo di Leo |
 | Coral Browne | ... | Meg |
 | Jill St. John | ... | Barbara Bingham |
| Jeremy Spenser | ... | Young man |
| Stella Bonheur | ... | Mrs. Jamison-Walker |
| Josephine Brown | ... | Lucia |
| Peter Dyneley | ... | Lloyd Greener |
| Carl Jaffe | ... | Baron Waldheim |
| Harold Kasket | ... | Tailor |
| Viola Keats | ... | Julia McIlheny |
| Cleo Laine | ... | Singer |
| Bessie Love | ... | Bunny |
| Elspeth March | ... | Mrs. Barrow |
| Henry McCarty | ... | Campbell Kennedy (as Henry McCarthy) |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
The Widow and the Gigolo
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Runtime:
103 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
UK:12 (re-rating) (2005) | UK:X (original rating) | Canada:14+ (Ontario) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16
Filming Locations:
Associated British Elstree Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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Walter Randall was interviewed for a role of a reporter. more
Quotes:
Paolo di Leo: Rome is a very old city. Three-thousand years. How old are you? Fifty? more
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Featured in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone: Looking for the Light in All the Dark Corners (2006) (V) more
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This unique and beautiful film's subject of older women and gigolos is not told very often, but it is a good one. Ms. Leigh looks gorgeous and Mr. Beatty looks almost better than she does. Mr. Beatty has just the right amount of self-absorption to make you believe he cares for no one other than himself and what he can get from Ms. Leigh. Lotte Lenya is great as Rome's premiere perveyor of stud flesh for the rich and lonely. She is a snake, always a joy to behold and she deserved her Academy Award nomination as supporting actress. The film has a slight stagebound look, but Ms. Leigh's gowns by Balmain, the other costumes by Beatrice Dawson, Roger K. Furse's production design and the wonderful views of Rome and outlying areas all look great thru Harry Waxman's lens. No explosions or killings, just a good drama of human emotions acted well. Plus it also has Ernest Thesiger, Coral Browne, and the worst hairdo for Jill St. John you could possibly imagine.