Princess Olympia (Sophia Loren), despite her life status cannot resist the urge to satisfy her sexual appetites. Exiled to the countryside, Olympia falls in love with American millionaire Charlie Foster (John Gavin).
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| 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 | |
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Carlo Hintermann | ... | Prince Ruprecht |
| Roberto Risso | ... | Aide de camp | |
| Friedrich von Ledebur | ... | Count Sandor | |
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Adrienne Gessner | ... | Amelia |
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Luigi Cimara | ||
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Waveney Lee | ... | Countess Theresa |
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Walter Varndal | ||
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Princess Olympia (Sophia Loren), despite her life status cannot resist the urge to satisfy her sexual appetites. Exiled to the countryside, Olympia falls in love with American millionaire Charlie Foster (John Gavin).
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Once Upon a Night She Started More Than Just a Breath of Scandal See more »Parents Guide:
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Written by Robert Stolz and Al Stillman
Sung by Maurice Chevalier
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This was the first film directed by Michael Curtiz outside a Hollywood studio since 1926 and was somewhat overwhelmed by Vienna. Sophia Loren found his heavy Hungarian accent and mangled English hard to understand, such as the instruction "Please stand a little closer apart". See more »Goofs
Vehicles are seen driving on the right. The Austrians drove on the left until about 1933, well after the period of this story. See more »Soundtracks
A Breath of ScandalWritten by Robert Stolz and Al Stillman
Sung by Maurice Chevalier
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I can't believe all the criticism of this film, it's a light ball of fluff, it's funny and fun, and Sophia is gorgeous and so is John Gavin who just died last month at age 86. Give it a break! It's not a masterpiece but it wasn't trying to be. Filmed on location in Italy and Austria the cinematography features a royal world gone by, and Sophia's character is a pip of a princess who makes everyone nervous because she keeps doing scandalous things like shooting at weather vanes and riding forbidden wild stallions and desiring romances with undesirables. Enter John Gavin an American who is good at heart and doesn't know she is a Princess at first, he thinks he hurt her by frightening her horse which threw her to the ground, so he takes her back to an inn to recover, only she's perfectly fine, she just loves the way he looks and is smitten. Then the real (royal) world comes back into play and she is called to be a responsible Princess again and possibly marry royalty but she just can't forget that handsome American who lives in Pittsburgh. :) Must say the clothes design in this movie was Oscar worthy, Sophia wears breathtakingly beautiful clothes, if you love the rich fashions of days gone by you should watch it with a keen eye toward its style. A nice film to drink hot cocoa to on a cold winter night.