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L'ora della fantasia
- The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on the play L'ora della fantasia (The Dazzling Hour) by Anna Bonacci, which had inspired Wife for a Night (Moglie per una notte, 1952), an Italian film starring Gina Lollobrigida.
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The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on the play L'ora della fantasia (The Dazzling Hour) by Anna Bonacci, which had inspired Wife for a Night (Moglie per una notte, 1952), an Italian film starring Gina Lollobrigida.
Jan 21, 2022 · Based on an Anna Bonacci play that had already inspired a Gina Lollobrigida vehicle in Italy two years earlier, Kiss Me, Stupid (now streaming on Amazon Prime) was the logical endpoint of themes Wilder and his regular co-screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond had been working through since their 1960 triumph The Apartment and its significantly less ...
May 22, 2015 · The complicated plot structure of mistaken identities, based on an Italian play by Anna Bonacci, hums along like Dino’s pre-fiddled roadster.
Jun 12, 2011 · The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the play L’ora della fantasia ( The Dazzling Hour) by Anna Bonacci, which had inspired Wife For a Night ( Moglie per una notte, 1952), an Italian film starring Gina Lollobrigida. The comic song lyrics were written by Ira Gershwin, using some of George Gershwin’s unpublished melodies.
Apr 26, 2020 · Kiss Me, Stupid. (Billy Wilder, 1964) Skewering celebrity vanity, the allure of success and the obsession with fame, Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) takes a long, hard look at these subjects and is simultaneously fascinated and appalled, amused and aghast at what it sees. The film starts by literally deconstructing an icon of the era, with the name and ...
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Kiss Me, Stupid is a 1964 American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Dean Martin, Kim Novak, and Ray Walston. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the play L'ora della fantasia (The Dazzling Hour) by Anna Bonacci, which had inspired Wife For a Night (Moglie per una notte, 1952), an Italian film starring Gina ...
The plot was loosely based on a farce by Anna Bonacci, L'Ora della Fantasia, which had been a hit on the Paris stage in 1953. One previous attempt to Americanize the story, a play called The Dazzling Hour with Olivia De Havilland, was intended for Broadway, but closed early in its tryout run.
