It Started in Naples (1960) |
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| Director(s) | Melville Shavelson |
| Producer(s) | Jack Rose |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Top Topics | Italy, Romance (Comic) |
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Clark Gable(as Michael Hamilton)
It Started in Naples
Released
1960
It Started in Naples
Released
1960
Clark Gable
(as Michael Hamilton)
Sophia Loren(as Lucia Curcio)
It Started in Naples
Released
1960
It Started in Naples
Released
1960
Sophia Loren
(as Lucia Curcio)
Vittorio de Sica(as Mario Vitale)
It Started in Naples
Released
1960
It Started in Naples
Released
1960
Vittorio de Sica
(as Mario Vitale)
Yvonne Monlaur(as )
It Started in Naples
Released
1960
It Started in Naples
Released
1960
Yvonne Monlaur
(as )
It Started in Naples Overview:
It Started in Naples (1960) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by Melville Shavelson and produced by Jack Rose.
Academy Awards 1960 --- Ceremony Number 33 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arrigo Breschi | Nominated |
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It Started in Naples Quotes:
Michael Hamilton:
How are people supposed to sleep on this island?
Mario Vitale:
A man can be a pig and a lawyer at the same time.
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Just before the courtroom scene, Lucia dramatically and tearfully denounces Mike's and his lawyer's attempts to trick her and steal the boy, to which Gable's character remarks sarcastically, "I forgot, who won the Academy Award this year?" In fact, Sophia would become the first foreign actress to win an Oscar (Best Actress) for a foreign-language film, Two Women (1960, It.) the following year.
Clark Gable became addicted to Italian food while making the film, and his weight ballooned to 230 lbs.
At one point Sophia Loren accused director Melville Shavelson of filming her from her less attractive side in order to favor co-star Clark Gable. She added, "He doesn't have to worry about his career any more, but I have to worry about mine." Gable immediately exploded, "What the hell is she talking about? Both sides of my face are lousy and my backside isn't much better." Relations between the two stars did not improve after that.
The film was shot in and around Naples and Sophia Loren had to sneak into the country to make the movie, because the Italian government was investigating her Mexican "marriage" to Carlo Ponti, who was still legally married to another woman.
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.