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Mood:
- HumorousFeel Good
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Plot:
- Unlikely CoupleOpposites AttractSelf DiscoveryCouple RelationsFall in LoveLove and RomanceMind and SoulCouples more...
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Genres:
- ComedyRomanceDrama
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Time/Period:
- 50s
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Place:
- EnglandIndiaClinic
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Audience:
- Date Night
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Humor:
- Irreverent Humor
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Based on:
- Based on Play
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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The Millionairess, 1960
English
UK
Profile of The Millionairess
The Millionairess can be described as humorous and feel good. The plot revolves around an unlikely couple, opposites attracting, and self discovery. Its comic aspect comes from irreverent humor. The Millionairess's main genres are comedy, romance, and drama. In approach, it is realistic. It is set, at least in part, in a clinic. The Millionairess is located in India and England. It takes place in the 1950s. It is adapted from a play. The Millionairess is well suited for a date night.
Summary of The Millionairess
Anthony Asquith, more famous for his direction of George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION, here adapts the lighter, though still socially conscious Shaw play, THE MILLIONAIRESS. Sophia Loren, as the beautiful, statuesque heiress, Epifinia, can't find a man who measures up to her late father's marriage test. The prospective groom must be able to turn five hundred pounds into fifteen thousand pounds in three months. In despair she jumps into the Thames, only to be ignored by Doctor Kabir (Peter Sellers), who's passing by in his row boat. Though less slapstick than his portrayal of the bumbling Indian actor in THE PARTY, Sellers still brings his characteristic humorous fumbling to the role of the devoted doctor. He's married to science, and thus resists marriage to the spoiled Epifinia. Besides, to pass his mother's test a prospective bride is sent out with just the clothes on her back and five hundred rupees and must make her way in the world for three months.
When they both accept the test Epifinia goes to work for Joe, a small time pasta maker, played by Vittorio De Sica. Known more as a director (he directed Loren in her Oscar winning performance in TWO WOMEN), De Sica brings a quiet dignity to his part. Just as Dr. Kabir is about to fail at his test he receives some unexpected help from Epifinia's lawyer, the ever delightful Alistair Sim and from his old teacher, Professor Noel, who bears a distinct similarity, in looks and appearance, to G.B. Shaw. On a tangential note, in the final scene Sophia Loren wears one of the silliest hats in the history of the movies.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 9 February 1961 |
| Runtime: | 90 min |
Cast and Crew
as Epifania Parerga
as Dr. Ahmed el Kabir
