A New Kind of Love (1963)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Melville Shavelson

Writer:

Melville Shavelson (writer)

Release Date:

23 December 1963 (West Germany)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot:

The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression that Joanne Woodward is a high-priced call girl...

Plot Keywords:

Call Girl | Fashion | Paris | Journalist | Couturier

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Paul Newman	...	Steve Sherman
Joanne Woodward	...	Samantha (Sam) Blake / Mimi
Thelma Ritter	...	Leena
Eva Gabor	...	Felicienne Courbeau
George Tobias	...	Joe Bergner
Marvin Kaplan	...	Harry
Robert Clary	...	Frenchman at Restaurant
Jan Moriarty	...	Suzanne, Model with Umbrella
Joan Staley	...	Danish Stewardess
Robert F. Simon	...	Bertram Chalmers, Sherman's Boss
Maurice Chevalier	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Keith Dahle	...	Shopper (as Galen Keith Dahle)
Frank Sinatra	...	Singer behind opening credits

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Finland:S | Sweden:15 | USA:Unrated

Company:

Llenroc Productions

Quotes:

Steve Sherman: Don't cry, Sam
Samantha Blake: Don't call me Sam!
[He kisses her]
Steve Sherman: Well, I'll never call you Sam again!

Movie Connections:

References La dolce vita (1960)

Soundtrack:

You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me

Very thin sex comedy, dressed to entertain but with nowhere to go…

"A New Kind of Love" is a forgettable farce comedy teamed with Newman and Woodward … It's an unpretentious story: a simple, mannish woman foolish1y devotes herself to a career instead of doing what women are supposed to do—hunt for husbands… But she gives her beauty treatment, a new style and expensive clothes and she'll straighten out and find a man… The new look is that after her marked change, the man mistakes her for a prostitute…

Although she's humiliated, she encourages his misunderstanding, telling him sensational stories about herself until he falls in love with her! The implication: if satisfying a man's infantile sex fantasies is the only way to get him, it's better than being an ordinary professional woman…

Joanne Woodward plays a fashion designer who, with blonde hair and showy makeup, actually looks more uninteresting than before…

Newman plays a sportswriter whose athletics with blonds has kept him from winning the Pulitzer Prize… He's an arrogant, alcoholic ill-bred man … As usual, he has some effective lecherous looks and self-disgusted expressions, but with all the charm and the grace…