THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE (1961)

Karen Stone (Vivien Leigh), an actress, and her businessman husband are off on holiday to Rome. Her husband suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Karen Stone decides to stay in Italy and rent a luxury apartment in Rome. She is soon introduced by the Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales (Lotte Lenya) to a young Italian man, Paolo (Warren Beatty). They soon embark on a passionate affair, with disastrous consequences.

Writer: Tennessee Williams
Genre: Drama
Running time: 103 min.
Director: Jose Quintero
Producer: Louis de Rochemon
Associate producer: Lothar Wolff
Screenplay: Gavin Lambert and Jan Read
Music Director: Douglas Gamley
Costumes: Pierre Balmain and Bumble Dawson
Opened: 28 December 1961 (USA)
Starring: Vivien Leigh (Karen Stone), Warren Beaty (Paolo di Leo), Lotte Lenya (Contessa), Coral Browne (Meg), Stella Bonheur (Mrs. Jamison-Walker), Jill St. John (Barbara Bingham), Jeremy Spencer (Young man), Josephine Brown (Lucia), Peter Dyneley (L. Greener), Carl Jaffe (Baron), Harold Kasket (Tailor), Viola Keats (Julia), Bessie Love (Bunny), Elspeth March (Mrs. Barrow), and Henry McCarty (Kennedy)

Nominations: 1962 as Best Actress in a Supporting Role Lotte Lenya - Nominated for Oscar
1962 as Best Supporting Actress Lotte Lenya - Nominated for Golden Globe

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