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That Kind of Woman
That Kind of Woman is a 1959 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, who was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. It stars Sophia Loren and Tab Hunter. The screenplay by Walter Bernstein, based on a short story by Robert Lowry ("Layover in El Paso"), is highly reminiscent of the 1938 film The Shopworn Angel.
The Paramount Pictures release was filmed on location in New York City and Long Beach, New York.
Loren said the film “wasn’t much of a success, despite the fact that a great artist like Sidney Lumet directed it.”
The film is set in New York City in June 1944, during World War II. Kay is a sophisticated Italian woman, the mistress of a Manhattan millionaire industrialist known simply as The Man, who uses her to help him influence his contacts at The Pentagon. While en route from Miami to New York City by train, she and her friend Jane meet a considerably younger American paratrooper named Red and his sergeant George Kelly, and Kay and Red fall into a romantic relationship. Eventually, the woman finds herself torn between her upscale life in a Sutton Place apartment and the prospect of true love with the GI.
The film was based on Robert Lowry's 1945 short story, “Layover in El Paso,” which was published in a collection of his stories The Wolf That Fed Us (1945). The story was in a 1957 anthology of the best American short fiction written during the World War II years. Film rights were bought by Paramount.
The film was developed as a vehicle for Sophia Loren, who was under contract to Paramount. Sidney Lumet agreed to direct because he wanted to work with Loren. The location was shifted from Texas to New York.
Lumet recommended his friend, the blacklisted Walter Bernstein, to write the screenplay. Both Lumet and Bernstein warned Ponti that there might be problems with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Lumet had worked with Hunter in television and suggested him for the male lead.
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That Kind of Woman
That Kind of Woman is a 1959 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, who was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. It stars Sophia Loren and Tab Hunter. The screenplay by Walter Bernstein, based on a short story by Robert Lowry ("Layover in El Paso"), is highly reminiscent of the 1938 film The Shopworn Angel.
The Paramount Pictures release was filmed on location in New York City and Long Beach, New York.
Loren said the film “wasn’t much of a success, despite the fact that a great artist like Sidney Lumet directed it.”
The film is set in New York City in June 1944, during World War II. Kay is a sophisticated Italian woman, the mistress of a Manhattan millionaire industrialist known simply as The Man, who uses her to help him influence his contacts at The Pentagon. While en route from Miami to New York City by train, she and her friend Jane meet a considerably younger American paratrooper named Red and his sergeant George Kelly, and Kay and Red fall into a romantic relationship. Eventually, the woman finds herself torn between her upscale life in a Sutton Place apartment and the prospect of true love with the GI.
The film was based on Robert Lowry's 1945 short story, “Layover in El Paso,” which was published in a collection of his stories The Wolf That Fed Us (1945). The story was in a 1957 anthology of the best American short fiction written during the World War II years. Film rights were bought by Paramount.
The film was developed as a vehicle for Sophia Loren, who was under contract to Paramount. Sidney Lumet agreed to direct because he wanted to work with Loren. The location was shifted from Texas to New York.
Lumet recommended his friend, the blacklisted Walter Bernstein, to write the screenplay. Both Lumet and Bernstein warned Ponti that there might be problems with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Lumet had worked with Hunter in television and suggested him for the male lead.