Love in the Afternoon (1957 film)

Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder which stars Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the Claude Anet novel Ariane, jeune fille russe trans., Ariane, Young Russian Girl, which previously was filmed as Scampolo in 1928 and Scampolo, ein Kind der Strasse trans., Scampolo, a Child of the Street in 1932, the latter with a script cowritten by Wilder. Wilder was inspired by a 1931 German adaptation of the novel Ariane directed by Paul Czinner.

Ariane is in time. When Monsieur X breaks into Flannagans hotel suite, he finds Flannagan with Ariane, not his wife she is cautiously making her escape via an outside ledge. Flannagan is intrigued by the mysterious girl, who refuses to give him any information about herself, even her name. He resorts to calling her thin girl. She has no romantic history but pretends to be a femme fatale to interest him, and soon falls in love with the considerably older man. She agrees to meet him the next afternoon, because her orchestral practice is in the evenings although she does not admit that is the reason. She comes with mixed feelings, but ends up becoming his lover for the evening until his plane leaves.Her father, who has tried unsuccessfully to protect her from knowing about the tawdry domesticsurveillance details in his files, notices her change of mood but has no idea that it proceeds from one of his cases. ........

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