During the 50s and early 60s, there were several movies about young to middle-aged women touring in Italy and falling in love with Italian men, and I often get these movies mixed up.
---Katharine Hepburn being romanced in Venice by Rossano Brazzi in David Lean's Summertime (1955).
---Vivien Leigh being sought after by Warren Beatty in Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961).
---Rosano Brazzi is part of the cast in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954).
In THIS movie, Yvette Mimieux portrays a 27-year-old woman, Clara, who is brain damaged due to a childhood accident in which her pony had kicked her in the head. As a result of the accident, she has the emotional innocence of a 10-year-old girl with the body and hormones of an attractive 27-year-old woman.
For years, Clara's mother and father, Meg and Noel Johnson (Olivia de Havilland and Barry Sullivan), have been struggling with each other as to what to do about her future. This struggle has only recently been exacerbated when Clara innocently had jumped into the arms of a mature male stranger her age. Since Noel Johnson is wealthy tobacco executive from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he and Meg have the money to delay the decision by arranging a Italian vacation of indeterminate duration for Clara and Meg, while hoping for a magical solution to their problems.
While Meg and Clara are touring in Florence (and learning Italian), Clara is attracted to a young Italian man her age, Fabrizio Naccarelli (George Hamilton), as he is naturally attracted to her. With no noticeable problems, Fabrizio and Clara fall in love. Meg hopes against hope that this may give Clara a "normal life" while Noel—who briefly comes to Rome to confer with her—is not convinced.
Nevertheless, Meg and Clara return to Florence, and Meg proceeds with wedding plans for Clara to marry Fabrizio with the help of his unsuspecting parents (played by Nancy Nevinson and Rosano Brazzi).
After all, she IS willing to covert to Catholicism and they are quite happy with the upcoming marriage ...
---Katharine Hepburn being romanced in Venice by Rossano Brazzi in David Lean's Summertime (1955).
---Vivien Leigh being sought after by Warren Beatty in Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961).
---Rosano Brazzi is part of the cast in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954).
In THIS movie, Yvette Mimieux portrays a 27-year-old woman, Clara, who is brain damaged due to a childhood accident in which her pony had kicked her in the head. As a result of the accident, she has the emotional innocence of a 10-year-old girl with the body and hormones of an attractive 27-year-old woman.
For years, Clara's mother and father, Meg and Noel Johnson (Olivia de Havilland and Barry Sullivan), have been struggling with each other as to what to do about her future. This struggle has only recently been exacerbated when Clara innocently had jumped into the arms of a mature male stranger her age. Since Noel Johnson is wealthy tobacco executive from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he and Meg have the money to delay the decision by arranging a Italian vacation of indeterminate duration for Clara and Meg, while hoping for a magical solution to their problems.
While Meg and Clara are touring in Florence (and learning Italian), Clara is attracted to a young Italian man her age, Fabrizio Naccarelli (George Hamilton), as he is naturally attracted to her. With no noticeable problems, Fabrizio and Clara fall in love. Meg hopes against hope that this may give Clara a "normal life" while Noel—who briefly comes to Rome to confer with her—is not convinced.
Nevertheless, Meg and Clara return to Florence, and Meg proceeds with wedding plans for Clara to marry Fabrizio with the help of his unsuspecting parents (played by Nancy Nevinson and Rosano Brazzi).
After all, she IS willing to covert to Catholicism and they are quite happy with the upcoming marriage ...