An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 nominations total
Carl Jaffe
- Baron Waldheim
- (as Carl Jaffé)
Henry McCarty
- Campbell Kennedy
- (as Henry McCarthy)
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- TriviaThis was Tennessee Williams' personal favorite film adaptation of any of his works. Indeed, he claimed in his autobiography that it was the only one that he liked much at all. As the film was a critical failure, Williams's enthusiasm surprised many, but it may be simply because of his fondness for director Jose Quintero (whose only work for the cinema it was) and certain of the actors or because it was not hobbled by censorship issues.
- GoofsThe handkerchief Karen Stone takes out is different from the one picked up by the young man outside.
- Quotes
Karen Stone: You see... I don't leave my diamonds in the soap dish... and when the time comes when nobody desires me... for myself... I'd rather not be... desired... at all.
- Crazy creditsThe Warner Brothers shield logo which normally introduces a Warner Brothers film appears at the end of this film instead of at the beginning.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond (1990)
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Vivien Hypnotic
"Are you trying to--touch me, Contessa?" No one who sees Vivien Leigh on film can remain unmoved by her for long, if they are sensitive to beauty. Or pain. Despite whatever faults it may reveal to some, this film is a truly beautiful representation of the singularly tormented art of a hypnotically compelling actress. Watch her eyes in the introductory scene on the sofa, as she glances at the Contessa and her boy, over the smoke rising from her filter-less cigarette. Or at the villa lunch party--is anyone more graceful on screen with a fork and an awkward plate of food in their hands while managing to consume, register taste, swallow, and speak "sophisticated" dialog in the best postwar style, in a foreign (American) accent? Watch her in the café scene with Lotte Lenya's voracious pimp zeroing in on its prey: Leigh was tormented by the word "Beautiful"--friends and fans called her that to her face almost involuntarily, yet she couldn't tell them it drove her crazy, that her English convent school upbringing made that word synonymous with "shallow", at least to her way of thinking--but what other word describes her? Vivien Leigh casts a spell on all who see her, long after her death from tuberculosis in 1967. Oh, and the 1961 Lincoln convertible is as beautiful as any of the "Roman" scenery in the background; it is the perfect choice for Karen Stone's car.
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- Casadena
- Feb 15, 2010
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- Der römische Frühling der Mrs. Stone
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- Gross worldwide
- $7,736
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) officially released in India in English?
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