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Roman Holiday

  • 1953
  • Approved
  • 1h 58m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
153K
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Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday (1953)
Leonard Maltin & Andrea Kalas
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Romantic ComedyComedyDramaRomance

A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

  • Director
    • William Wyler
  • Writers
    • Dalton Trumbo
    • Ian McLellan Hunter
    • John Dighton
  • Stars
    • Gregory Peck
    • Audrey Hepburn
    • Eddie Albert
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    8.0/10
    153K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    2,281
    84
    • Director
      • William Wyler
    • Writers
      • Dalton Trumbo
      • Ian McLellan Hunter
      • John Dighton
    • Stars
      • Gregory Peck
      • Audrey Hepburn
      • Eddie Albert
    • 370User reviews
    • 161Critic reviews
    • 78Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 3 Oscars
      • 11 wins & 20 nominations total

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    Gregory Peck
    Gregory Peck
    • Joe Bradley
    Audrey Hepburn
    Audrey Hepburn
    • Princess Ann
    Eddie Albert
    Eddie Albert
    • Irving Radovich
    Hartley Power
    • Mr. Hennessy
    Harcourt Williams
    Harcourt Williams
    • Ambassador
    Margaret Rawlings
    Margaret Rawlings
    • Countess Vereberg
    Tullio Carminati
    Tullio Carminati
    • General Provno
    Paolo Carlini
    • Mario Delani
    Claudio Ermelli
    Claudio Ermelli
    • Giovanni
    Paola Borboni
    Paola Borboni
    • Charwoman
    Alfredo Rizzo
    • Taxicab Driver
    Laura Solari
    Laura Solari
    • Hennessy's Secretary
    Gorella Gori
    • Shoe Seller
    Armando Ambrogi
    • Man on Phone
    • (uncredited)
    Armando Annuale
    • Admiral Dancing with Princess
    • (uncredited)
    Maurizio Arena
    Maurizio Arena
    • Young Boy with Car
    • (uncredited)
    Silvio Bagolini
    • Undetermined Role
    • (uncredited)
    Nadia Balabine
    • Woman of Importance Watching the Military Parade
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • William Wyler
    • Writers
      • Dalton Trumbo
      • Ian McLellan Hunter
      • John Dighton
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    10Artless_Dodger

    Audrey Hepburn simply dazzles in this gem of a movie.

    Audrey Hepburn simply dazzles in this gem of a movie. Princess Ann (Hepburn) escapes the confines of her rarefied royal existence for a day, to be rescued by a reporter, Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck).

    Bradley senses a scoop and seeks to inveigle the Princess into a story. However, this is a fairy tale, of the Princess and the commoner. Love blossoms, the beautiful Princess experiencing everyday things we might take for granted with a delight we cannot know. Sitting at a roadside café, getting a haircut, enjoying an ice cream, dancing on a riverboat. She soaks in these experiences in the company of her handsome saviour, not realising his intentions.

    It's beautifully done. Hepburn is radiant, refined, beautiful, enchanting - things she went on to display in many movies. However, she was at her most perfect here, as the beautiful Princess needing love and wanting happiness. Peck is an ideal foil. Tall, dark, and handsome, his only thought being the scoop placed before him, his ambition wilting in the face of his developing love for a Princess he can't hope to attain. Both are ably supported by Eddie Albert as Irving Radovich, Bradley's photographer colleague. Indeed, Albert is involved in many of the funniest scenes.

    It's a fairy tale, beautifully told. William Wyler makes the most of his location, showing us Rome in all it's splendour. The perfect backdrop to the perfect fairy tale.

    However, this film belongs to Audrey Hepburn. She shines and dazzles, brightening nearly two hours of every viewers life. How could you hope for more than that.
    8jotix100

    Viva Audrey!

    I recently caught this little gem of a film on a retro program and it was a trip well worth it. William Wyler was a genius directing throughout his film career. Here he's in top form.

    The only way this film could have been conceived was with the charming presence of Audrey Hepburn in her first appearance on a Hollywood film. She is without a doubt, an angel who was sent to this earth to delight the movie audiences in whatever movie she happened to dignify with her appearance in.

    Some people have compared Audrey Tatou with the incomparable Audrey Hepburn. Seeing Ms Hepburn in Roman Holiday will certainly change the minds of those comparing fans. Audrey Hepburn was a star's star! She exudes charm, intelligence, elegance, and beauty. Just one look from her could disarm Gregory Peck forever.

    The only wrong note of this production was the way the writer, Dalton Trumbo, was treated since he had been blacklisted by the anti-communist faction lead by Sen. McCarthy and company. In the end, Mr. Trumbo was vindicated in having his name recognized as the writer of Roman Holiday.

    This film is a feast to the eyes in that glorious cinematography and Rome as a background. This was Hollywood at its best. Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn will be forever young any time we take a look at this classic that I'm sure will live and charm its viewers whenever they take a chance to see it for the first time, or like some of us, for another loving look.
    9gbill-74877

    Magical romantic comedy

    Audrey Hepburn burst onto the movie scene with this film, her first role. She plays an English Princess traveling in Rome who is bored with her official duties and the tight schedule she's on. One night after getting a tranquilizer to calm her from the stress of it all, she sneaks away into the streets of Rome. She's found by a newspaperman played by Gregory Peck, who takes her to his place to sleep it off. When he finds out who she really is, he realizes he's on top of a gold mine of a story, and enlists his photographer friend (Eddie Albert) to get candid shots of the two while they sightsee.

    Hepburn and Peck are such an attractive couple, and director William Wyler gets lots of beautiful shots of Rome, including the Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Castel Sant'Angelo, and of course the classic scene they have at the Bocca della Verità. It all makes for a very romantic film. Hepburn played her part perfectly, expressing frustration and joy with such economy, as well as the restraint that comes from being a royal. Among several others, the scene with her getting her hair cut short is captivating, and it's no wonder that she won an Oscar for her performance. Peck's performance is also excellent, and Eddie Albert pulls off the part of a young rogue quite well despite being 47 at the time. I won't spoil the ending, except to say it's touching and poignant, and so perfectly shot in the Palazzo Colonna. At the end of the day this is 'just a romantic comedy', with its share of silliness, but it's so mature and magical, and with these stars in this setting, it stands head and shoulders above so many others.
    trpdean

    An utter gem

    A plot as slender as Audrey Hepburn but oh what magic! If you've never seen this jewel, you're to have one of the best evenings of your week, your month.

    Perhaps the key to this movie's success is restraint - in the dialogue, in the music, in the cynicism of Peck and cronies at the movie's beginning. No one gushes - all is understated - but how one feels its power.

    I hope everyone has experienced a day such as they - with someone they come to care for - as much as they. It's my wish for the world.
    10duffjerroldorg

    Emma Thompson and Audrey Hepburn

    A comment made by Emma Thompson made me want to see "Roman Holiday" again. Miss Thompson said about Audrey Hepburn "she has no bite" Implying that Miss Hepburn wasn't much of an actress. Well, I don't know what she was talking about or perhaps she doesn't either. To see "Roman Holiday" again in 2017 was a moving and wonderful experience. Audrey Hepburn's performance is as fresh and enchanting as I remembered. Perhaps even more. So I arrived to the conclusion that Miss Thompson is talking about a different kind of acting. When a performance travels in time with the same power, decade after decade, for me that's great film acting. In "Roman Holiday" she took me with her and convinced me, heart and mind, that she was that princess and I loved her. William Wyler, the wonderful director, knew what he was doing - he always did. By introducing us to Audrey Hepburn he reinforced and reinvigorated his own prodigious legacy. I love Emma Thompson as an actress but she's totally wrong about Audrey Hepburn.

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    • Trivia
      When Gregory Peck came to Italy to shoot the movie, he was privately depressed about his recent separation and imminent divorce from his first wife, Greta Kukkonen. However, during the shoot he met and fell in love with a French-born woman named Veronique Passani, of Italian and Russian parents. Following his divorce, he married her, she became Veronique Peck, and they remained together for the rest of his life.
    • Goofs
      Ann wears a white tie until she sits down on the Spanish steps. The tie is gone and the collar is open when Joe speaks to her on the next shot. When they are stopped at the Palazzo Venezia, Ann is wearing a striped neckerchief and continues to do so for the rest of the evening.
    • Quotes

      Princess Ann: I have to leave you now. I'm going to that corner there and turn. You must stay in the car and drive away. Promise not to watch me go beyond the corner. Just drive away and leave me as I leave you.

      Joe Bradley: All right.

      Princess Ann: I don't know how to say goodbye. I can't think of any words.

      Joe Bradley: Don't try.

    • Alternate versions
      The writing credits on the film originally completely omitted the name of Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted at the time, and read: Screenplay by Ian McLellan Hunter and John Dighton Story by Ian McLellan Hunter In 1991, the WGA acknowledged Dalton Trumbo's authorship of the story, granting him a posthumous "Story By" credit. The "Screenplay By" credit however was not changed. In 2011, Tim Hunter (son of Ian McLellan Hunter) wrote a letter to John Wells, president of the WGA, asking on behalf of Christopher Trumbo (Dalton Trumbo's son), who had just passed, to petition for Trumbo to be recognized as author of the screenplay as well. The WGA further revised the credits, which have been corrected on all copies of the film released since then.
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    • Release date
      • September 2, 1953 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
      • German
    • Also known as
      • La princesa que quería vivir
    • Filming locations
      • Cafe Rocca, Via della Rotonda 25, Pantheon, Rome, Lazio, Italy(Mr. Bradley ask Irving the Photoreporter to photograph the Princess at a cafe', today is a fashion store)
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Budget
      • $1,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $103,197
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 58 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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