Jump to content

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
Directed byFranco Brusati
Written byFranco Brusati
Ennio De Concini
StarringVirna Lisi
George Segal
Lila Kedrova
Paola Pitagora
Akim Tamiroff
CinematographyEnnio Guarnieri
Edited byFranco Arcalli
Music byRiz Ortolani
Release date
  • 1968 (1968)
CountryItaly

Tenderly (internationally released as The Girl Who Couldn't Say No, also known as Il suo modo di fare) is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Franco Brusati.[1] It was referred as "a successful attempt to refresh the American sophisticated comedy with themes and sensibilities of today"[2] and its style was compared to Frank Capra's.[2][3]

Plot

[edit]

After fifteen years apart, a young, motivated surgeon named Franco (Segal) runs into his childhood friend Yolanda (Lisi) in Rome. They fall in love and travel to Florence together, but Yolanda's unpredictable, often unusual personality makes the future of their relationship highly uncertain.[4]

Cast

[edit]

Production

[edit]

It was known during shooting as Runaround.[6]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Kevin Thomas (March 27, 1970). "'Girl Couldn't Say No' Playing Citywide Run". Los Angeles Times.
  2. ^ a b Enrico Giacovelli. Un secolo di cinema italiano, 1900-1999: Dalle origini agli anni Sessanta. Lindau, 2002. ISBN 8871804120.
  3. ^ Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, B & N, Volume 30, Società Gestione Editoriali, 1969.
  4. ^ Turner Classic Movies plot overview
  5. ^ Richard Davenport-Hines, ‘Cumming, (Felicity) Anne (1917–1993)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 accessed 11 April 2017
  6. ^ Strike Halts George Segal Movie Dorothy Manners:. The Washington Post and Times-Herald 16 Mar 1968: D10.
[edit]