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Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert, Paolo Carlini, Margaret Rawlings

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Michelle Taylor

I have not received the poll updates recently, and I have been unable to locate the list of movies scheduled to be shown. Is anyone else experiencing these issues?

dys

Nope, I still see the list stickied and saw the poll today.

Clare Manion

Isn’t this just the most delightful film? It’s the perfect vacation movie. I went to Italy once as a teenager; we spent most of the time in Sicily, and then like two days in Rome. Whenever I see this movie I think about how I need to go back and see Rome properly… i.e. on the back of a moped in a fabulous summer dress while eating gelato. As one does ;) Looking forward to hear what you think!

Jonathan

Green Acres is my guilty pleasure sitcom. It's also a favorite sitcom of the creator of The Simpsons. If anyone finds it too silly you can look at it as a pscological study as the main couple gets driven crazier the longer they live in that town.

sharkey197

Not only did Audrey film her first movie, she walked away with the Best Actress oscar. aAfter seeing this, I definitely see why.

Pam Nail

- Another rom-com which is not just influenced by this but a straight-up homage to it is Only You, with Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. - Art Carney won the Oscar for Harry & Tonto, a really charming movie about a man traveling cross-country with his cat. - This was directed by William Wyler, who also directed Ben-Hur, Funny Girl, Mrs. Miniver, and The Best Years of Our Lives (all but one of which (Funny Girl) won Best Picture).

Chemical Em

yes more black and white movies please!

Jeff

"Roman Holiday" was the first American movie to be filmed entirely in Italy. Many of the sites in the movie are still there for tourists to visit. I think you'll find that many of us here on Patreon would LOVE for you to watch more black-and-white films. Once I save up some more money, I'll be purchasing a few that I think you'll like.

JustALilTired

I love this film, Audrey was such a beautiful actor and had so much range. I recommend reading up on her life or watching a documentary. As a teen, she and her family lived in devastating conditions during the war and she became extremely malnourished and she never fully recovered from that and struggled to eat much, which is, in part, why she was so tiny. She was a great activist and humanitarian throughout her life and spent many of her later years helping children in third world countries. Some of my other Audrey favorites are Sabrina, How to Steal a Million, Charade (with Carey Grant), Wait Until Dark, and The Children’s Hour.

Chemical Em

this movie is so magical yet still realistic, showing that people come in our lives, sometimes not staying as long as you might want, but making an impression that effects both of you for the better

Mariska Costeris

Just to be a teenager for a minute: oh he was so handsome, what a moviestar.

Mariska Costeris

You are right, it would be amazing on a big screen. I must look out for it at classic screenings.

Sigy

I love this film so much! and wowwow I forgot just how much Notting Hill took its ending from Roman Holiday!!

Joshua Taylor

Her first American film anyway. She had supporting roles in British and French films prior to this.

Joshua Taylor

Also Jezebel (1938), The Big Country (1957) and How to Steal a Million with Audrey and Peter O’ Toole (1966)

Joshua Taylor

Audrey was amazing. She also participated in The Dutch Resistance as a teen, giving messages to downed fighter pilots in the woods outside of Arnhem and putting on dance shows to raise money for the resistance but also as a cover for Resistance meetings.

Sammy Fan

If you have never seen a Robert Mitchum movie try Night of the Hunter or Cape Fear

Gail Hislop

One of my favourite films ever! You mentioned the costumes early on- the legendary Academy Award winning Edith Head was responsible for them and this film was one of her 35 wins! Audrey was just an exquisite 23 years old when she filmed this and the movie probably single handedly boosted tourism to Italy at the time! I had the absolute privilege of seeing Audrey in person when she was in her 60’s and on a visit to Australia. She came on her own to the high end department store I was working at, shopping for her husband. She glided in the front door wearing her signature trench coat, designer trousers and simple sweater and before she had gone 3 feet the word had spread through all our departments (the phones were running hot) that she was there! No one bothered her, she was charm and grace personified as she did her shopping and it felt like royalty had been to visit. She was born for this role as a princess, having come from Belgian aristocracy and it garnered her an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA. Irving’s line ‘it’s always open season on Princess’s’ hits so hard when you think about what Princess Diana endured being relentlessly hounded by paparazzi and how they ended her life. She too used to escape incognito at times and go out and enjoy life and get away from Royal duties. I always loved that Irving gave Anne the photos and she can treasure them and that memory forever - and that sweet barber would have been set for life if word or photos ever got out that he had cut and styled Royalty! It’s such beautiful writing throughout and yes it is bittersweet but it’s a perfect (not Hollywood or Disney) ending.

Ben Gilbert

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted and his name wasn't restored to the credits until 2011. The credited screenwriter sent his royalties to Trumbo.

Ben Gilbert

The location shooting in Rome was so expensive that they had to shoot it in black and white to save money.

Clare Manion

I remember watching reruns all the time as a kid - I think this might have been the early days of ‘Nick at Night’. …Anyway, it was prevalent enough that, about 4th grade, my friend and I would spend recess singing the theme song at the top of our lungs. We were strange children, lol.

Youtalkingtome

I'm really glad Trumbo was at least given his royalties. That was an honorable move.

Youtalkingtome

I just read through Edith Head's credit list. Amazing!

Youtalkingtome

I tried to react to Night of the Hunter last night, but it was unavailable to rent. I went with Wait Until Dark.

Youtalkingtome

Sadly, we have very few classic screenings near us.

Youtalkingtome

Definitely. I'm surprised he didn't play romantic leads more often.

Youtalkingtome

That's definitely the plan! We have major blind spots in classic films.

Carolyn C

It was also fun to see Eddie Albert in "Every Girl Should be Married," starring Cary Grant and Betsy Drake (who would become Cary's 3rd wife.)

Carolyn C

I love that you chose to watch this movie and thrilled that you enjoyed it so much. I'm enjoying your channel more and more.

Joshua Taylor

He was one of the best directors of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Up there with Michael Curtiz, George Cukor and Raoul Walsh in my opinion. Actors really liked him and he had naturally synergy with great DOPs like James Wong Howe and Franz Planer.

Joshua Taylor

Also the excellent noir by Jacques Tourneur “Out of the Past” from 1947. Mitchum’s so good as is Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas.

Sammy Fan

That's a great choice.

Chelsea

This is my all time favorite movie! So glad you reacted to it. The behind the scenes on this film is absolutely amazing as well, it was a film where every department was firing on all cylinders mainly because they all just adored Audrey and she was so instrumental in pulling out the best from everyone...I have the anniversary blu ray that has so many extras on it and it is as fascinating as the movie!

Carl Wilson

Because I always like to note these things - the $1.50 she borrowed from him would be about $19 now.

Carl Wilson

Green Acres was always on in reruns when I was a little kid, in the mid-1970s, along with Petticoat Junction and the Andy Griffith Show, all these rural 1960s shows that seemed very boring and old fashioned to me then. I knew the theme songs but I never watched them. When I grew up I found out they'd all been cancelled in the "rural purge" of the early 1970s in favour of the new more youthful and urban shows like the Mary Tyler Moore Show. So I was right in line with the culture at the time I guess. The only one I did watch in reruns was The Beverly Hillbillies, which of course was a rural-meets-city show. (And had the very best theme song.)

Carl Wilson

That's an incredible story to have from working in a department store!

Carl Wilson

Kevin thought that Cary Grant played this role - which I have sometimes thought too - and no wonder, because that's who Wyler originally wanted to cast! But Grant thought that at almost 50 he was too old to play opposite 24-year-old Hepburn - whereas Peck was a spry 37, lol.

Carl Wilson

Notice that we never hear what country she's the princess of - it's always just "her country" - which adds to the fairy-tale feeling. I think the ending makes you feel that both of their lives are going to be different because they met each other for those 24 hours, even though they might never meet again. Along with the examples you mention, it reminds me of Before Sunrise that way, if we don't think about the sequels. (It's very funny to imagine similar sequels to Roman Holiday - "New York Holiday," "Amsterdam Holiday"? Or maybe "Roman Workday," "Roman Retirement"?)

Gail Hislop

It was a pretty surreal experience! It was a very high end store - think of Harrods London or a Saks Fifth Avenue, but still, in Melbourne Australia you don’t expect to see Audrey Hepburn wandering through the tie department on a random Thursday 🤣

vala p

Green Acres is just the original Stars Hollow. Taylor is Mr Haney and Kirk is Arnold Ziffel

Youtalkingtome

Incredible. Very curious how many times that has happened before..if ever.

Cotubug

The Children’s Hour and Sabrina are my two favourite Audrey Hepburn movies. The latter is pure charm and the former is a strong drama with LGBT themes, one of the first such films I can think of. Both absolute classics, and show her range.

kosmickrab

I saw this movie for the first time earlier this year when it replayed in theaters for a day, and yes, it was amazing on the big screen. I was also blown away at the ending because I assumed they'd end up together just because that's what you expect from movies of this era. I kept trying to figure out the logical way they'd do it and I kept hitting a block. So I found it very refreshing when it turned out that they go their separate ways.