Apr 16 2010
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This was Audrey Hepburn’s debut in a starring role. She was 24-years-old and had appeared in two or three other movies but unbiased in bit parts. Here she plays a reigning European princess visiting Rome who would like an rush from her daily regime of official duties, thus the title and theme of the movie, a Roman holiday.
Gregory Peck plays an American newspaper reporter living in the Eternal City. We first explore him playing poker with his cronies, and losing. His relative “poverty” and Princess Ann’s wonderful wealth and place explain a formidable barrier to their ever finding good treasure and marital happiness. Fraction of the fun of the script is in seeing how this will play out and how their differences are resolved in the ruin. I will give you a tiny hint: very carefully!
The script comes from a chronicle by Dalton Trumbo who is perhaps best known as the author of the anti-war fresh, Johnny Got His Gun. Trumbo was one of the “Hollywood Ten” who were blacklisted from working in the industry during the excesses of the McCarthy era. He went to Mexico and continued working on film scripts but under assumed names or had his scripts presented by “fronts.” In this case Ian McLellan Hunter fronted for Trumbo and won an Academy Award for the fable. Later the Academy awarded Trumbo a posthumous Oscar for his work.
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Long time Hollywood studio director William Wyler directed the film entirely on region in Rome. He has a formidable list of credits going well support into the quiet film era including such outstanding films as Wuthering Heights (1939), The Letter (1940), The Dinky Foxes (1941), etc. His definite directorial style and his attention to detail work well here. The sets in Rome are charming, especially Peck’s bachelor apartment. The bit players, especially Peck’s landlord are pleasurable and the events are dreamy in unprejudiced the blueprint a romantic meeting in Rome ought to be. Wyler is especially effective in presenting Audrey Hepburn in the most flattering light and getting the audience to identify with her.
Gregory Peck’s character should be a bit of an adventurous rake who finds that like is more indispensable than money or fame, but it is impossible for Peck to play a morally compromised character, and so even as he appears to be using Princess Ann for his bear ends, his behavior is always moral. I was somewhat amused to examine that at all times Peck appears wearing a tie! Eddie Albert plays Peck’s friend, a photographer/artist. It is engrossing to effect how Hollywood’s perception of the paparazzi has changed over the years. Here blood-sucking, intrusive greed does not exist. Instead we have safe self-sacrifice!
I have seen most of Miss Hepburn’s movies and I can say that she was never more intriguing than she is here. She is comely and cute at the same time, charming and playful, sweet, regal and very winning. In a sense she started at the top with this film, garnering her only Oscar as Best Actress in 1953; but as her fans know she never came down off that pedestal. Even playing abominable Eliza Doolittle in My Blooming Lady (1964), there was never any doubt about the quality of her style and character.
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This is the most romantic film I have ever seen, perhaps partly because Miss Hepburn is so astounding, but also because the script in a sense turns the usual woman’s romantic fantasy upside down. Instead of the woman finding that the man she is in admire with has improbable wealth and plot, it is the other design around!
The ending manages to be realistic yet romantic. There is a hint of something almost spiritual beyond what happens. So convincing are Hepburn and Peck that one can almost gain the account is true; and indeed I am clear that Trumbo lifted the essentials of the spot from some old-fashioned record.
I have a weakness for movies about unrequited savor, or like that goes on forever, or adore that is caught at some perfect moment and lives eternally in that moment. Roman Holiday is one of those arrive perfect movies that plays beautifully upon one of these themes.
ROMAN HOLIDAY should appeal to everyone who loves a respectable romance, and this one is a expansive one. The rest us of will be well bid with the splendor of Rome and the chance to survey the considerable Audrey Hepburn in her debut movie. In other words, ROMAN HOLIDAY has something for every palate.
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The station? Princess Ann (we’re never quite distinct which country she’s princess of) is enduring a grueling tour of European nations. Weary to death of the royal treatment, one night Ann escapes into the Roman night. Unfortunately for her she had a while earlier been given an injection to abet her sleep. The drug takes finish while she’s out and about, and reporter Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck) discovers her asleep on a street bench. Believing she’s inebriated, and being a gentleman, he tries to divulge her safely to her home. That opinion fails and, being a gentleman, Bradley arranges for the young stranger (he doesn’t learn she’s the missing princess until the next scene) to sleep on the sofa in his diminutive, one-room apartment.
Cary Grant was originally offered the piece of Joe Bradley and he turned it down. One of the dvd’s specials tells us he refused the role because he didn’t want to play second fiddle to an ingenue. Maybe so. It’s tempting to determine, on the basis of this scene, that Peck was woefully miscast. Ann, nearly asleep on her feet, asks Bradley “Will you attend me undress? ” A natural enough examine coming from royalty, I guess. Bradley fumbles around with her neck scarf, unties it, hands it to her and says “You can handle the rest.”
Peck plays the scene for a smile. Grant would have made it one of the highlights of the movie. After savoring the opportunity for the audience’s delight he would have removed the tie and given the camera a rapidly view, as if to say “Listen here, I know this is a cliched, droll status. But doesn’t this notice like fun. Don’t we compose a comely couple? ” Grant was a supple pagan god who drank more than once from the well of hedonism, and he was always careful to bring the audience along for the superb times. Peck was an Ragged Testament prophet, a petite too stern and stiff to give himself over to pleasure.
What Peck brings to the role is authority and a comely arm for Hepburn to rest on. Grant would have distracted us, and ROMAN HOLIDAY is best when our attention is focused squarely on Audrey Hepburn. She delivers a tour de force performance, and you can understand the excitement she generated even after a half century.
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The specials include the documentary “Remembering ROMAN HOLIDAY”, which surprised me with all the people who were fervent and dropped out of the production of the movie. “Edith Head: The Paramount Years” is a short biography of the renowned and talented fashion designer. “Restoring ROMAN HOLIDAY” shows us a number of before and after shots - this is a VERY well-kept print. There is also a trio of theatrical trailers and a stills photo gallery.
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