Movie [Movie] Roman Holiday

2010.05.09 19:08

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Roman Holiday (1953)

Audrey Hepburn - Gregory Peck

What were you doing in the fall of 1953?
One thing for sure, we were in Korea, young and yearning for a romance or two.
That's when the movie "Roman Holiday" came, crashing upon us like a tsunami.
Yes, there was Audrey Hepburn for boys and Gregory Peck for girls.
Among us, who is going to deny the tender romantic crush in our hearts?

Gentlemen, Audrey Hepburn was 24 then and would have been 81 today,
and ladies, Gregory Peck was 37 then and would have been 94 today,
and how old were you then and now?
The scents and memories of the movie may be still as fresh as yesterday,
yet do you need to be told how long ago it was?
Let's try to remember one more time. - SNUMA WM

Film Details

ROMAN HOLIDAY
Release Date: Sep 1953
Duration (in mins): 118

Cast:

Gregory Peck (Joe Bradley)
Audrey Hepburn (Princess Anne, also known as Anya "Smitty" Smith)
Eddie Albert (Irving Radovich)
Hartley Power (Mr. Hennessy)
Harcourt Williams (Ambassador)

Director:

William Wyler (Dir)
Herbert Coleman (Asst dir)

Writer:

Ian McLellan Hunter (Scr)
John Dighton (Scr)

Producer:

William Wyler (Prod)
Robert Wyler (Assoc prod)

Distribution, Production
Company:

Paramount Pictures Corp.

Summary:

While in Rome during a multi-city goodwill tour, Princess Anne, the youthful heir to a European crown, impresses the guests of an embassy ball with her charm and poise. Later, as she is preparing for bed, Anne, feeling overwhelmed by her tedious, endless schedule, starts to scream uncontrollably at her efficient secretary, Countess Vereberg. To calm her, Anne's doctor injects her with a sedative, but before the drug takes effect, Anne sneaks out of the palatial embassy and hides in the back of a truck. Anne jumps out when the truck reaches a lively part of town, but is already starting to yawn from the sedative.

Soon after, American reporter Joe Bradley spots her prostrate on some stairs and hears her mumbling in English. Joe is unaware of her identity and assumes she is drunk, but reluctantly drags her into a cab. When Joe asks the increasingly groggy Anne for an address, she insists that she lives in the Colosseum.

Not knowing what else to do, Joe takes Anne to his tiny apartment. There, while trying to undress herself so that she can don Joe's pajamas, Anne admits that she has never been alone with a man and begins to recite poetry.

Frustrated, Joe goes out for coffee after instructing her to sleep on his couch. When he returns, however, he finds her curled up in his bed and rolls her onto the couch. The next day, Joe, who was scheduled to interview the princess that morning, wakes up late and rushes out, leaving behind the still sleeping Anne. At his newspaper office, Joe, unaware that the princess' activities for the day have been cancelled, lies to Hennessy, his editor, that he conducted the interview. When Hennessy shows him a newspaper report about the princess' sudden "illness," Joe stares at the accompanying photograph and realizes that the princess is the woman on his couch.

Seeing his opportunity, the perpetually broke Joe gets Hennessy to agree to pay him $5,000 if he produces an exclusive, revealing interview with the princess, complete with photographs. Back at Joe's apartment, Anne finally wakes up and introduces herself as Anya.

After drawing Anne a bath, Joe slips out and telephones his photographer friend, Irving Radovich, telling him only that he needs him for an important story. Now bathed and dressed, a grateful Anne borrows 1,000 lire , or $1.50, from Joe and leaves on foot. Joe follows her, watching with amusement as she buys a pair of shoes from a street vendor. Anne then enters a barbershop and insists that the barber, Mario Delani, cut her long hair into a stylish bob.

Mario is taken with the transformed Anne and invites her to a barge dance that night. With her last bit of money, Anne buys a gelato and at the Trevi fountain, is joined by Joe, who pretends he has run into her. Anne, in turn, claims she is a runaway schoolgirl and admits that her only desire is to spend the day having fun. Anxious to please, Joe takes her to a nearby cafe, where she meets Irving, who, unaware of Joe's scheme, almost reveals Joe's identity.

After Joe fills him in, Irving, using a miniature camera hidden inside a cigarette lighter, snaps pictures of Anne smoking her first cigarette. The three then go sightseeing, and Anne, whom Irving nicknames "Smitty" after she states that her last name is Smith, jumps on a motorscooter Joe has rented and takes a wild ride around the plaza. The ride gets them arrested, but when Joe claims that he and Anne were on their way to get married, the police let them go.

Anne and Joe test their truthfulness at the ancient sculpture Bocca della Verità, or Mouth of Truth, and then visit a wall on which passersby post their hopes and wishes. Having made her wish, Anne asks to be taken to the barge dance near the Castel Saint Angelo and there enjoys a romantic dance with Joe. When Mario shows up and cuts in, Joe and Irving become excited imagining the publicity potential of the headline "The Princess and the Barber." Just then, secret service agents from Anne's homeland grab her and start to drag her away. Anne screams for Joe, who races to the rescue and instigates a brawl. Anne gleefully joins in the fracas and jumps in the Tiber River with Joe to escape capture.

After swimming to safety, Joe and Anne embrace and kiss, then return to Joe's apartment. There, Anne hears a radio report about the distress her "illness" is causing her people and sadly tells Joe she must leave. Stopping near the embassy, Joe and Anne share a final, passionate kiss before Anne runs off into the night. In the embassy, Anne's advisors scold her for neglecting her duty, but Anne silences them by stating that duty was the only reason she came back. The next day, Hennessy drops by Joe's apartment, anxious to collect his story, and is dismayed when Joe insists he does not have one. Irving then shows up with the photographs he took of Anne, but Joe refuses to use them.

Later, Anne appears at the previously scheduled press conference and is pleasantly surprised to see Joe and Irving there. After Joe lets her know through his public comments that her secrets are safe with him, Anne deviates from protocol and shakes hands with the reporters. Irving then gives her the photos he took, and with tears in her eyes, she tells Joe how much she has enjoyed meeting him. Heartbroken, Joe watches Anne retreat with her advisors and walks out of the embassy alone.

(Story from American Film Institute)

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Source: AFI Top 10, Edited May 9, 2010, SNUMA WM

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계기식*72

2010.05.09 21:17

저도 이 영화 재미있게 보았습니다. 주인공들이 다 타계했지요 아마...

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방준재*70

2010.05.09 22:11

My older sister's favorite movie and Audrey was her favorite actress.
I forgot the story of the movie but Audrey's pure and innocent image I remember.
Probably, WM, you Celebrated Mother's Day watching this movie for old tiimes' sake.

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한원민*65

2010.05.10 01:24

[오소리 예쁜] 이는 첫 출연으로
증말로 예뻣지요.

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황규정*65

2010.05.10 01:31

Who could forget this William Wyler's cute and well entertaining film?
Audrey's beautiful and pure looks would live our hearts forever! KJ

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운영자

2010.05.10 04:49

Life comes once and then it must ends in RIP (rest in peace).

Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)

.... In her later years, acting took a back seat to her work on behalf of children.
She became a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF in the late 1980s.
Traveling the world, Hepburn tried to raise awareness about children in need.
She understood too well what it was like to go hungry from her days in The Netherlands
during the German Occupation.
Making more than 50 trips, she visited UNICEF projects in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America.
She won a special Academy Award for her humanitarian work in 1993,
but she did not live long enough to receive it.
Hepburn died on January 20, 1993, at her home in Tolochenaz, Switzerland due to colon cancer.
Hepburn was known for her beauty, elegance, and grace.
She was imitated often but, I think, no one can duplicate her personal and humanitarian beauty.
She was a rare gem among the entertainement crowds and all humanities.

Gregory Peck (1916-2003)
...In 1967, Peck received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
He was also been awarded the Medal of Freedom.
Always politically liberal, Peck was active in causes dealing with charities, politics or the film industry.
He died in June 2003, aged 87.

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이건일*68

2010.05.10 10:44

우린 젊은 날의 추억을 일깨우는 영화 이야기를 올리 셨군요.
현 존 하는 배우들 중 누가 Audrey Hepburn 와 Gregory Peck 을 넘어설수 있을 까요?
맨 pretty face 밖에 없으니.
Except Meryl Streep, Robert de Nero & Al Pacino.

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한원민*65

2010.05.11 12:10

[오소리 예쁜] 을 지금 도리켜 생가글 하면
결혼생활만 자리 되엇떠라면
증말로 모든기룰 가춘 인간 녀배우가 되는긴데-----, 안타까부요--.

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유석희*72

2010.05.11 15:19

티파니에서 아침을.
에서도 오드리 햅번이 나오지 않았나요?
키우던 고양이를 버리고 다시 찾는.
마지막 장면이 기억에 납니다.

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