Un millionnaire fiancé à une jeune femme mystérieuse décide d'engager un détective pour lui découvrir la vérité sur son passé.Un millionnaire fiancé à une jeune femme mystérieuse décide d'engager un détective pour lui découvrir la vérité sur son passé.Un millionnaire fiancé à une jeune femme mystérieuse décide d'engager un détective pour lui découvrir la vérité sur son passé.
Ricky Allen
- Boy in Library
- (uncredited)
Val Avery
- Pudgey Smith
- (uncredited)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesTo prepare herself to play the heroine with a checkered past, Carroll Baker actually worked a shift in an all-night diner (where she went unnoticed), made change in a penny arcade booth, visited a Tijuana brothel and so forth - publicity stunt "research" that was documented in a lengthy February 27 1965 Saturday Evening Post picture story called "The Lady Was A Tramp".
- GaffesIn the library sequence, none of books are marked with the Dewey Decimal System coding or other markings that would enable anyone to easily find or shelve books.
- Citations
Alan Macklin: You mentioned something about a job.
Frederic Summers: Sylvia West. I want to know who she is. I want to know everything there is to know about Sylvia West. Everything a prospective husband has a right to know.
- ConnexionsReferenced in What's My Line?: Lee Remick (2) (1965)
- Bandes originalesSylvia
Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Music by David Raksin
Sung by Paul Anka
Thru the courtesy of RCA Victor Records
Commentaire en vedette
In a good tradition
Sylvia certainly has a great tradition of similar films to fall back on. Chicago Deadline, The Mask Of Dimitrios, and the great Citizen Kane all deal with someone trying to pick up the real story of somebody by interviewing people from the past and getting flashback incidents.
Peter Lawford has hired PI George Maharis to trace down the background of Sylvia, the girl he plans to marry. What Carroll Baker in the title role has given him is completely bogus though she's pretty well fixed on her own and doesn't need Lawford's millions. But he's a careful sort and Maharis begins his work.
I have to say that it was a clever idea for him to use her writings, she's a poet, for traces of local idiomatic expressions. Maharis has a linguistics professor on call who tells him his starting point should be Pittsburgh.
After that Maharis starts on his hunt and meets a variety of characters played by some really fine character actors. It's the best thing Sylvia has going for it. These people really make the film. The most memorable for me are Ann Sothern who works in a penny arcade and is a drunk and Viveca Lindfors as a librarian from Pittsburgh who gives Maharis his first bit of real information.
Baker does well as a woman who really graduated summa cum laude from the school of hard knocks. The film was supposed to be a breakout film for George Maharis who left his TV series Route 66 for a career on the big screen. It never quite worked out that way. He does all right in the part of the PI, but I think either Paul Newman or Robert Mitchum would have aced the part of the private eye.
Still Sylvia is worth watching for one of the best cast of character players ever assemble this side of John Ford or Frank Capra.
Peter Lawford has hired PI George Maharis to trace down the background of Sylvia, the girl he plans to marry. What Carroll Baker in the title role has given him is completely bogus though she's pretty well fixed on her own and doesn't need Lawford's millions. But he's a careful sort and Maharis begins his work.
I have to say that it was a clever idea for him to use her writings, she's a poet, for traces of local idiomatic expressions. Maharis has a linguistics professor on call who tells him his starting point should be Pittsburgh.
After that Maharis starts on his hunt and meets a variety of characters played by some really fine character actors. It's the best thing Sylvia has going for it. These people really make the film. The most memorable for me are Ann Sothern who works in a penny arcade and is a drunk and Viveca Lindfors as a librarian from Pittsburgh who gives Maharis his first bit of real information.
Baker does well as a woman who really graduated summa cum laude from the school of hard knocks. The film was supposed to be a breakout film for George Maharis who left his TV series Route 66 for a career on the big screen. It never quite worked out that way. He does all right in the part of the PI, but I think either Paul Newman or Robert Mitchum would have aced the part of the private eye.
Still Sylvia is worth watching for one of the best cast of character players ever assemble this side of John Ford or Frank Capra.
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- bkoganbing
- 11 nov. 2016
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langues
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Das Vorleben der Sylvia West
- Lieux de tournage
- Beverly Amusement Park, 8500 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis(lunch scene after the bookshop)
- société de production
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- Durée1 heure 55 minutes
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