Summertime (1955)


Summertime
Release Date29 May 1955
TaglineIt Happens to Hepburn - It Happens in Venice!
GenreRomance, Drama
CountryUK
USA
Filming LocationsCampo San Barnaba, Venice, Veneto, Italy
LanguageEnglish, Italian
Sound MixMono
ColorColor
Film TypeFeature
Film ClassRomantic Drama
MoodIn the Mood for Love
ThemesAmericans Abroad, Infidelity
TonesAffectionate, Warm, Bittersweet, Wistful
TagsExtramarital Affair, Italy, Love, Romance, Secretary, Spinster, Vacation

Summertime (released in the UK as Summer Madness) is a 1955 American/British Technicolor drama film directed by David Lean. The screenplay by Lean and H. E. Bates is based on the play The Time of the Cuckoo by Arthur Laurents.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Jane Hudson

Renato de Rossi

Signora Fiorini

Eddie Yaeger

Phyl Yaeger

Jane Rose
Mrs. McIlhenny

MacDonald Parke
Mr. McIlhenny

Vito de Rossi

Gaetano Autiero
Mauro

Virginia Simeon
Giovanna

Man at Café

Englishman

Director

Writer

H.E. Bates

Arthur Laurents
play "The Time of the Cuckoo"

Producer

Ilya Lopert
producer

Norman Spencer
associate producer

Original Music

Alessandro Cicognini
-

Cinematographer

Jack Hildyard

Editor

Peter Taylor
-

Production Designer

Vincent Korda
-

Makeup Department

Grazia De Rossi
hairdressing

Cesare Gambarelli
makeup artist

Production Manager

Raymond Anzarut
production manager

Franco Magli
production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Alberto Cardone
assistant director

Adrian Pryce-Jones
assistant director

Art Department

Ferdinand Bellan
assistant art director

William Hutchinson
assistant art director

Italo Tomassi
manager of art department

Sound Department

John Cox
sound re-recordist

Peter Handford
sound recordist

Winston Ryder
sound editor

Jacqueline Thiédot
sound editor

Camera and Electrical Department

Archie Dansie
chief electrician

Peter Newbrook
camera operator

Other Crew

Walter Fried
presented on Broadway by, producer: original stage production

Robert J. Kingsley
assistant to producer

Maggie Unsworth
continuity

Robert Whitehead
producer: original stage production, presented on Broadway by

Production Company

London Film Productions

Lopert Films Inc.

Distributor

United Artists

CBS Television

Criterion Collection, The
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