Complete credited cast: | |||
Vanessa Redgrave | ... | Miss Bentley | |
Edward Fox | ... | Major Wilshaw | |
Uma Thurman | ... | Miss Beaumont | |
Alida Valli | ... | Signora Fascioli | |
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Carlo Cartier | ... | Mr. Bonizzoni |
Alessandro Gassmann | ... | Vittorio Balsari (as Alessandro Gassman) | |
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Natalia Bizzi | ... | Signora Bonizzoni |
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Frances Nacman | ... | 1st American Lady |
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Paolo Lombardi | ... | Enrico |
Riccardo Rossi | ... | Guido | |
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Sonia Martinelli | ... | Maria |
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Veronica Wells | ... | 2nd American Lady |
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Carlotta Bresciani | ... | Bonizzoni Angel |
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Bianca Tognocchi | ... | Bonissoni Angel |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Ayanta Barilli |
For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up -- not even thinking about it -- as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears. Written by Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
Take two outstanding British actors, give them a clever, witty script, set them in a gorgeous part of Italy and a fascinating era of history, and you can't help but produce a great movie. It's a romance but it's also a delicious send up of the vanity of men and the deviousness of women. Lovely work with superb photography and a haunting musical theme.It captures the essence of pre war Europe and the joy of Italian life even under fascism. Vanessa Redgrave and Edward Fox, two of my very favourite people, didn't disappoint me. Enjoyed it immensely