Details

Release year: 1960

Storyline

Days before his wedding, a Philadelphia lawyer travels to Naples in Southern Italy to settle the estate of his late brother, only to find that he has an Italian nephew who is being cared for by his maternal aunt, a cabaret singer.

Top credits

Directors

Melville Shavelson

Writers

Cast

Clark Gable — Michael Hamilton
Sophia Loren — Lucia Curcio
Vittorio De Sica — Mario Vitale
Marietto — Nando Hamilton

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• Clark Gable became addicted to Italian food while making the film, and his weight ballooned to 230 lbs. He is clearly a lot heavier in some scenes than in others.

• Although Clark Gable and Sophia Loren did not get along during filming, he did help smuggle Carlo Ponti onto the island to celebrate her 25th birthday.

• This was the last movie Clark Gable made that was released during his lifetime and Gable's last color film. The 33-year age difference between him and Sophia Loren was blamed for the film's poor performance. There was in fact some surprise that he had accepted the part, since at a press conference while filming But Not for Me (1959) he had announced that he was no longer going to play romantic leads.