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Name: The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Released: 1961-12-28
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya, Coral Browne, Jill St. John

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

G
1h 43m
1961

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Academy Award winners Warren Beatty and Vivien Leigh star with Lotte Lenya in this film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' novel. Middle-aged American actress Karen Stone (Leigh) takes an apartment in Rome after her career fades and her wealthy husband dies. Intending to take advantage of the lonely widow's money, the Contessa Magda (Lenya), introduces Karen to Paolo (Beatty), a handsome young gigolo. But when the Contessa receives no financial return from the liaison, she introduces Paolo to another American--leaving Karen Stone emotionally devastated...and susceptible to even less scrupulous young men.

Director:

Jose Quintero

Producer:

Louis de Rochemont

Writer:

Gavin Lambert, Jan Read, Tennessee Williams

Cast:

Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya, Coral Browne, Jill St. John, Jeremy Spenser

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Sojourner

Kathi Maio

Not all the women who sleep with men young enough to be their sons die foi their sins, but most of them live to wish they had.

September 11, 2019

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Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dennis Schwartz

The disappointing pic is right in Vivian Leigh's wheel-house, as she inhabits her aging and fading beauty character to the fullest and gives a superb performance.

As the aging actress, Vivien Leigh is good but Warren Beatty is miscast as the gigolo in this weak screen adaptation of Tennessee William's novella.

The tagline says that they called it love and it was for sale, to which the appropriate response is that one hopes they kept the receipt.

The prose is so purple and the tone so overripe that ... what wants to be mature, sensual romance-novel boilerplate becomes instead a plodding exercise in intriguingly cast camp.

June 21, 2017

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