Love in the Afternoon (1957 film)

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Love in the Afternoon
Directed by	Billy Wilder
Produced by	Billy Wilder
Written by	Billy Wilder I.A.L. Diamond
Starring	Gary Cooper Audrey Hepburn Maurice Chevalier Van Doude
Release date(s)	June 30, 1957
Running time	130 min.
Language	English
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Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, and Maurice Chevalier, and directed by Billy Wilder. It should not be confused with Love in the Afternoon, a 1972 film directed by Éric Rohmer.

[edit] Plot

Maurice Chevalier plays a private detective who lives in Paris. Audrey Hepburn plays his daughter Arianne, a student of the cello. Hepburn takes an interest in her father's case files and soon becomes enamored of American playboy Frank Flannigan (Cooper); jealous husbands frequently hire Chevalier to track Cooper. When Hepburn learns of one husband's intention to kill Cooper, she finds him and warns him. She is eager to start a relationship but fears her inexperience will ruin her chances with him, so she pretends to be a mysterious woman of the world. Eventually Cooper hires Chevalier to find out more about her. The story resolves as Hepburn's innocence inspires Cooper to reform and marry her. The title design was created by twentieth-century graphic designer Saul Bass.

[edit] External links

• Love in the Afternoon at the Internet Movie Database

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