
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paolo to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.
Cast

Vivien Leigh
Karen Stone

Warren Beatty
Paolo di Leo

Lotte Lenya
Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales

Coral Browne
Meg

Jill St. John
Barbara Bingham

Ernest Thesiger
Stefano

Jeremy Spenser
Young Man

Stella Bonheur
Mrs. Jamison-Walker

Bessie Love
Bunny

Josephine Brown
Lucia

Peter Dyneley
Lloyd Greener

Carl Jaffe
Baron Waldheim

Harold Kasket
Tailor

Viola Keats
Julia Mcllheny

Cleo Laine
Singer
Elspeth March
Mrs. Barrow

Warren Mitchell
Giorgio
Henry McCarty
Campbell Kennedy

Paul Stassino
Stefano the Barber

Mavis Villiers
Mrs. Coogan

John Phillips
Tom Stone

Jean Marsh
Party Guest (uncredited)
Crew

José Quintero
Director
Gavin Lambert
Screenplay

Tennessee Williams
Novel
Ralph Kemplen
Editor
Harry Waxman
Director of Photography
Louis De Rochemont
Producer
Lothar Wolff
Associate Producer
Roger K. Furse
Production Design
Robert Lennard
Casting

Pierre Balmain
Costume Design
Beatrice Dawson
Costume Design
A. G. Scott
Hairstylist
Daphne Vollmer
Assistant Hairdresser
Sidney Turner
Assistant Makeup Artist
Bob Lawrance
Makeup Artist

Richard Addinsell
Original Music Composer
Jan Read
Additional Writing
Herbert Smith
Art Direction
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