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A Breath of Scandal

  • Director: Michael Curtiz
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Romance
  • Movie Type: Romantic Drama
  • Themes: Crowned Heads, Arranged Marriages, Love Triangles
  • Main Cast: Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier, John Gavin, Angela Lansbury, Milly Vitale
  • Release Year: 1960
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 98 minutes

Plot

Based on the Ferenc Molnar play Olympia, A Breath of Scandal serves as an elegant vehicle for a ravishing Sophia Loren. The star plays Princess Olympia, who despite her station in life cannot resist the urge to satisfy her sexual appetites. Exiled to the countryside, Olympia falls in love with American millionaire Charlie Foster (John Gavin). Meanwhile, a marriage of state is arranged between the princess and Prince Ruprecht of Prussia (Carlo Hintermann). Jealous rival Countess Lina (Angela Lansbury) endangers this union by threatening to tell all about Olympia and Foster. A cute, continental plot twist brings this harmless confection to a close. Maurice Chevalier dispenses his usual all-knowing glances and sly smiles as Olympia's understanding father. A Breath of Scandal was directed by Michael Curtiz, who uncharacteristically allows the pace to lag at crucial junctures. Scriptwriter Sidney Howard was credited with the script posthumously, some 21 years after his death. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Roberto Risso - Aide; Isabel Jeans - Princess Eugenie; Tullio Carminatti - Albert; Carlo Hintermann - Prince Ruprecht; Adrienne Gessner - Amelia; Friedrich Ledebur - Count Sandor; Frederick Von Ledenburg - Count Sandor; Waveney Lee; Walter Varndal

Credit

Hal Pereira - Art Director, Gene Allen - Art Director, Ella Bei - Costume Designer, Knize - Costume Designer, Michael Curtiz - Director, Howard A. Smith - Editor, Alessandro Cicognini - Composer (Music Score), Mario Montuori - Cinematographer, Marcello Girosi - Producer, Carlo Ponti - Producer, Walter Bernstein - Screenwriter, Sidney Howard - Screenwriter, Ferenc Molnar - Play Author

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A Breath of Scandal
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Produced by Marcello Girosi
Carlo Ponti
Written by Walter Bernstein (adaptation)
Sidney Howard (translation)
Ferenc Molnár (play)
Ring Lardner Jr. (uncredited)
Starring Sophia Loren
Maurice Chevalier
John Gavin
Angela Lansbury
Music by Alessandro Cicognini
Robert Stolz
Cinematography Mario Montuori
Editing by Howard A. Smith
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) 16 December 1960
Running time 97 min.
Country  United States
Language English

A Breath of Scandal is a 1960 film adapted from Ferenc Molnar's stage play Olympia. It stars Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier, John Gavin and Angela Lansbury and was directed by Michael Curtiz. The film is set at the turn of the 20th century and features lush technicolor photography of Vienna and the countryside of Austria. The costumes were created by Ella Bei of the Knize fashion house in Austria. Due in part to Michael Curtiz's direction which Sophia Loren was at odds with, Italian director Vittorio De Sica was hired to reshoot certain scenes with Loren after hours without Curtiz's knowledge.

It is a remake of the 1929 MGM film His Glorious Night, whose rights were bought by Paramount when this film was made. Coincidentally, years earlier, Paramount had sold one of their own films to MGM, the 1931 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, when MGM did their own version (this film is now owned by Warner Bros./Turner Entertainment).

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