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Overview

User Rating:
7.7/10   2,421 votes
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Director:
David Lean
Writers:
H.E. Bates (screenplay) &
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Release Date:
14 August 1955 (Japan) more
Genre:
Romance | Drama more
Tagline:
It Happens to Hepburn - It Happens in Venice! more
Plot:
A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(6 articles)
DVD: Review: Hobson’s Choice
 (From The AV Club. 24 February 2009, 10:00 PM, PST)

From 1922-1979: Get Your Film School Starter Pack Now
 (From Rope Of Silicon. 23 November 2008, 10:07 PM, PST)

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The Venice of "Summertime," in the Piazza San Marco, is indeed unique… more (49 total)

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Katharine Hepburn ... Jane Hudson
Rossano Brazzi ... Renato de Rossi
Isa Miranda ... Signora Fiorini

Darren McGavin ... Eddie Yaeger
Mari Aldon ... Phyl Yaeger
Jane Rose ... Mrs. McIlhenny
MacDonald Parke ... Mr. McIlhenny
Jeremy Spenser ... Vito de Rossi
Gaetano Autiero ... Mauro
Virginia Simeon ... Giovanna
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Summer Madness (UK)
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Runtime:
UK:99 min | USA:100 min | Argentina:102 min | West Germany:100 min
Country:
UK | USA
Language:
English | Italian
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)

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Trivia:
The story was also later adapted as a Broadway musical called "Do I Hear A Waltz" by Arthur Laurents with songs by Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim. The show opened at the 46th Street Theatre on March 18th, 1965 and ran for 220 performances. Laurents later revised the script and a new production was staged in 2000 at the Pasadena Playhouse in New Jersey. Recordings of both productions are available for purchase on specialist websites. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The amount of wine in Di Rossi's glass when he first sees Jane - the glass is empty, then full. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Fisher King (1991) more
Soundtrack:
Summertime In Venice more

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The Venice of "Summertime," in the Piazza San Marco, is indeed unique…, 1 June 2008
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Jane Hudson (Katherine Hepburn), a middle-aged American school teacher, arrives in Venice, fulfilling a lifelong dream… On her first evening, she has an encounter with Mauro, an enterprising little street child, who becomes her unofficial escort… But in the evening, while seating in a crowded café, she sees a handsome man in a gray flannel suit... Her first instinctive reaction was to oppose, pay the bill, escape, and keep out of sight...

The next evening, she sits alone to take a drink in the Piazza San Marco, but with a wandering eye… As the violins begin playing 'Summertime in Venice', Jane would turn away in a heart beat to see Renato passing by… To hide her anxiousness, she inclines the chair next to her, pretending that she is expecting a company... Jane has come to Venice to find a handsome, unmarried hero of her dreams... But she is furious and resentful... She really can't understand what she is doing...

The most advantageous thing about David Lean's 'Summertime' is its sensitive portrait of the loneliness that holds back the fancy secretary, a desperately single heroine whose search for romance and adventure is prevented less by cultural differences than by her own feeling defenses...

Hepburn is a pleasant tourist with great magnetism... Rossano Brazzi is too powerful, tempting and charming as Renato, the Venetian who couldn't catch a fallen white gardenia in one of the canals of his town…

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