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Under fire for giving a student her copy of a romance novel, Prudence resigns from her teaching position and sails for Italy.Under fire for giving a student her copy of a romance novel, Prudence resigns from her teaching position and sails for Italy.Under fire for giving a student her copy of a romance novel, Prudence resigns from her teaching position and sails for Italy.
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Phillip Angeloff
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Larry Arnold
- Waiter
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Brandon Beach
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Mary Benoit
- Librarian
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- TriviaThe interior of The American Bookshop is the set of the River City Library from Warner Bros. The Music Man (1962).
- GoofsThe opening credits read "introducing Suzanne Pleshette". That is actually incorrect. She was the female lead 4 years earlier as Sergeant Pearson in the 1958 movie the Geisha Boy with Jerry Lewis.
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Daisy Bronson: The first time a good-looking Italian man pinched my bottom, I said, "This is for me!"
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Why not "Lovers Must Learn" instead of (yawn!) "Rome Adventure"?
Never understood why this nondescript title was used for the American release of this piece of prime Delmer Daves eye candy. Certainly "Lovers Must Learn" says it all when it comes to the unrelenting emphasis on relatively discreet sex and romance-novel plotting that were the prime ingredients of this exercise in audience titillation, before the so-called Sexual Revolution of the late Sixties upended everyone's estimation of what could be shown on the big screen.
Delmer Daves was a master at getting the maximum out of his casts, both the talented and the merely decorative. I recall being highly entertained by Constance Ford's witty embodiment of an American shopowner, enjoying her European exile far from the shores of her prudish native land (and so much more sympathetic than that harridan she had to play in Daves' "A Summer Place," unforgettably chewing the proverbial scenery as she terrorized poor Sandra Dee and unrelentingly driving a stolid Richard Egan into the willing arms of Miss Dorothy McGuire!) And in this one I do recall thinking that Angie Dickinson had never been more lovingly photographed, more elegantly made up and coiffed, nor more expensively gowned, playing the spoiled temptress toying with the hapless (or do I mean, hopeless?) Troy Donahue. And let us not forget Suzanne Pleshette with her raven tresses, thoroughly modern good looks, and that throaty voice which fascinated many more, I'm sure, than just this besotted admirer. This kind of escapism, with very few exceptions, is a thing of the past, and I'm not too eager to agree that that's something about which we should have precious few regrets.
Delmer Daves was a master at getting the maximum out of his casts, both the talented and the merely decorative. I recall being highly entertained by Constance Ford's witty embodiment of an American shopowner, enjoying her European exile far from the shores of her prudish native land (and so much more sympathetic than that harridan she had to play in Daves' "A Summer Place," unforgettably chewing the proverbial scenery as she terrorized poor Sandra Dee and unrelentingly driving a stolid Richard Egan into the willing arms of Miss Dorothy McGuire!) And in this one I do recall thinking that Angie Dickinson had never been more lovingly photographed, more elegantly made up and coiffed, nor more expensively gowned, playing the spoiled temptress toying with the hapless (or do I mean, hopeless?) Troy Donahue. And let us not forget Suzanne Pleshette with her raven tresses, thoroughly modern good looks, and that throaty voice which fascinated many more, I'm sure, than just this besotted admirer. This kind of escapism, with very few exceptions, is a thing of the past, and I'm not too eager to agree that that's something about which we should have precious few regrets.
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- gregcouture
- Apr 30, 2003
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- Runtime1 hour 59 minutes
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