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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (Original title)The Widow and the Gigolo (Working title)
Dates: 1961 (Copyright), 12 March 1962 (Release)

Countries: United Kingdom, USA

Director: José Quintero

Synopsis: Story of middle-aged American widow's unhappy love affair with a Roman gigolo.

Genre:
Romance
Credits (60)
Production Company: A.A. Productions, Production Company: Seven Arts Productions, Producer: Louis De Rochemont, Associate Producer: Lothar Wolff, Unit Manager: Ted Wallis, Production Manager: Basil Somner, Administrator: Jack King, [Location Manager]: Robert Porter, [Production Secretary]: Midge Warnes, [Production Assistant]: Charles Castle, Assistant Director: Peter Yates, Assistant Director (2nd): Jake Wright, Derrick Parr, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Tony Wallis, Continuity: June Faithfull, Casting Director: Robert Lennard, [Crowd Casting]: Etienne Bonnichon, Screenplay: Gavin Lambert, Additional Writing: Jan Read, Based on the novel by: Tennessee Williams, Director of Photography: Harry Waxman, Camera Operator: Ernest Day, [Focus Puller]: Alec Mills, [Clapper Loader]: Jimmy Stilwell, [Chargehand Electrician]: Stephen Birtles, [Grip]: Jack Culver, [Stills]: Bert Cann, [Special Processes]: Vic Margotti, Editor: Ralph Kemplen, [Assembly Editor]: Graham Shipham, [Assistant Editor]: Eunice Mountjoy, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: Denis Skelton, Production Designer: Roger Furse, Art Director: Herbert Smith, [Initial Designs]: Ken Adam, Set Dresser: John Jarvis, [Senior Draughtsman]: Ron Benton, [Draughtsman]: Tony Reading, John Graysmark, [Scenic Artis]: Peter Wood, [Sketch Artist]: Ivor Beddoes, [Prop Buyer]: Jean Croft, Miss Vivien Leigh's Costumes Created by: Balmain of Paris, Costume Designer: Beatrice Dawson, Wardrobe: Betty Adamson, Wardrobe: John Briggs, Make-up: Robert Lawrance, [Assistant Make-up]: Sid Turner, Hairdresser: A.G. Scott, [Assistant Hairdresser]: Daphne Vollmer, Music: Richard Addinsell, Music Conductor: Douglas Gamley, Sound Mixer: Cecil Mason, [Boom Operator]: Dennis Whitlock, [Boom Assistant]: Keith Batten, Tommy Staples, Dubbing Editor: Leslie Hodgson, [Publicist]: Bob Webb, Studio: Elstree Studios
Cast (25)
Vivien Leigh (Karen Stone), Warren Beatty (Paolo di Leo), Coral Browne (Meg), Jill St. John (Barbara Bingham), Jeremy Spenser (young man), Stella Bonheur (Mrs Jamison-Walker), Josephine Brown (Lucia), Peter Dyneley (Lloyd Greener), Carl Jaffe (Baron Waldheim), Harold Kasket (tailor), Viola Keats (Julia McIlhenny), Cleo Laine (singer), Bessie Love (Bunny), Elspeth March (Mrs Barrow), Henry McCarthy (Campbell Kennedy), Warren Mitchell (Giorgio), John Phillips (Thomas J. 'Tom' Stone), Paul Stassino (Renato, the barber), Ernest Thesiger (Stefano), Mavis Villiers (Mrs Coogan), Lotte Lenya (Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales), Jean Marsh (Amanda), Thelma d'aguiar (Mita), Sarah Miles (woman in street outside barbershop), Robert Rietti