Richard Quine directs George Axelrod's acerbic script (adapted from Julien Duvivier's La Fête à Henriette) in this romantic comedy that reunites William Holden and Audrey Hepburn for the first time since 1954's Sabrina. Holden plays Richard Benson, a Hollywood screenwriter being pressured by movie producer Alexander Meyerheimer .. Read more
| Starring | William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Gregoire Aslan, Evi Marandi |
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| Director | Richard Quine |
| Genres | Comedy, Romance |
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Richard Quine directs George Axelrod's acerbic script (adapted from Julien Duvivier's La Fête à Henriette) in this romantic comedy that reunites William Holden and Audrey Hepburn for the first time since 1954's Sabrina. Holden plays Richard Benson, a Hollywood screenwriter being pressured by movie producer Alexander Meyerheimer (Noël Coward) to finish his script entitled The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower. Meyerheimer gives Richard a two-day ultimatum to complete his work, unaware that Richard has yet to even start on the script. In an effort to get moving on his project, Richard hires a live-in secretary, Gabrielle Simpson (Audrey Hepburn), to help him. Soon enough, the two fall in love and spend the time enacting various scenes from the unwritten screenplay as the time slips away and Richard's deadline looms.~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
| Starring | William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Gregoire Aslan, Evi Marandi, Marlene Dietrich |
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| Director | Richard Quine |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 46 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Comedy, Romance |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | Production year: 1964 To Rent: DVD: 03 Sep 2001 |
As a French film called La Fête à Henriette this was a charming whimsy, but Hollywood made it heavy-handed and boring, especially as no one in it seems to be having much fun.
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Find the humour in this if you can!
This is a woeful movie ostensibly about an author (William Holden) trying to meet a deadline for his book which he's yet to start. Hepburn plays the typist... read more »
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Dumbest film I've ever seen
This is absolutely, hands-down, the ditziest, dumbest film I have ever seen. I am shocked that Audrey Hepburn and the others took part in the making of it. ... read more »
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Paris when it sizzles
This movie fails to sizzle - it is a damp squib. Audrey Hepburn looks lovely and there are tantalizing shots of Paris but the movie is surprisingly boring. ... read more »
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Paris when it sizzles
I was really let down by the poor story content ,which for a movie star of Audrey Hepburns stature really dissapointed this Hepburn fan.
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