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Love in the Afternoon Overview:

Love in the Afternoon (1957) was a Comedy - Romance Film directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Billy Wilder and William Schorr.

Love in the Afternoon (1957)

SYNOPSIS

This romantic comedy written and directed by Wilder makes marvelous use of its Parisian settings, though the sight of 56-year-old Cooper romantically crossing swords with gamine Hepburn strains credulity. Hepburn saves Cooper from the spying of her father, private detective Chevalier, earning her his amorous attention. When Chevalier listens to Cooper's musings about his situation, he offers his services to track her down, then discovers it is his daughter he's tailing.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Love in the Afternoon BlogHub Articles:

Love in The Afternoon (1957): The Wilder Touch

By 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 8, 2020 From 4 Star Films

Billy Wilder, more than any screenwriter I’ve ever known, has a knack for voiceover narration. What other novices consider a crutch to feed us information, he uses as an asset to set tone, story, and location, while offsetting the image with the spoken word. Take the beginning of Love in The A... Read full article

Warner Archive Blu-ray: Hepburn and Cooper Share Love in the Afternoon (1957)

By KC on Feb 21, 2017 From Classic Movies

Director Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon (1957) is an odd little romance. It’s a shade too long, and even though the thought of Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper together has its appeal, the gap in their ages is always a bit unsettling. Still, the film, which is now available on Blu-ray fro... Read full article

Love in the Afternoon (1972)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 8, 2016 From 4 Star Films

Is it possible to love two women at once? In essence, that’s one of the main conceits of this moral tale from director Eric Rohmer’s series. Sometimes Rohmer feels like the Woody Allen of France although Allen’s films are slightly more geared towards comedy and the former’s... Read full article

Love in the Afternoon (1972)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 8, 2016 From 4 Star Films

Is it possible to love two women at once? In essence, that’s one of the main conceits of this moral tale from director Eric Rohmer’s series. Sometimes Rohmer feels like the Woody Allen of France although Allen’s films are slightly more geared towards comedy and the former’s... Read full article

Amor na Tarde / Love in the Afternoon (1957)

By Lê on May 3, 2016 From Critica Retro

Amor na Tarde / Love in the Afternoon (1957) Chevalier! Hepburn! Cooper! Paris! Fascinação! Tudo no filme nos chama para o romance. É uma história de amor pouco convencional, mas que nas mãos de Billy Wilder se transforma em um longo e delicioso flerte. Chevalier! Hepburn! Cooper! Par... Read full article

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Love in the Afternoon Quotes:

Ariane Chavasse: Working on a new case?
Claude Chavasse: A client from Brussels. His wife ran away to Paris with the chauffeur. I have to find them; the husband wants his car back.
Frank Flannagan: What does he export and what does he import?
Ariane Chavasse: Oh, he uh - he exports perfume and imports bananas. There's a fortune in it. Do you realize that for one bottle of perfume you get twelve bananas?
Frank Flannagan: Twelve bananas for one bottle of - doesn't sound like such a hot deal to me.
Ariane Chavasse: It's a tiny bottle of perfume and very large bananas.
Monsieur X: Please, monsieur, is the news good or bad?
Claude Chavasse: That depends. Is this your wife?
[Hands over a photograph]
Monsieur X: It looks like her.
Claude Chavasse: Then I regret to inform you that it looks bad.
Monsieur X: Then there IS another man!
Claude Chavasse: There is. And I regret to say that he looks good.
Frank Flannagan: Goodbye, thin girl.
Ariane Chavasse: Goodbye, Mr. Flannagan.
Frank Flannagan: You promised.
Ariane Chavasse: You don't have to worry about me, Mr. Flannagan. There've been so many men before. There'll be so many after this. It's gonna be another one of those crazy years. While you're in Cannes, I'll be in Brussels with the banker. He wants to give me a Mercedes Benz, a blue one, it's my favorite color. And while you're in Athens, I'll be with the duke again in Scotland. But, I don't know whether I'll go yet, because another man's asked me to spend the summer with him in Deauville. He owns race horses. He's very rich. He's number twenty. I mean number twenty one, you're number twenty. So, you see Mr. Flannagan, I'll be perfectly all right. I'll... I'll be all right... I'll be all right!
Ariane Chavasse: Papa, you are a cynic!
Claude Chavasse: I guess I am.
Ariane Chavasse: You enjoy your work!
Claude Chavasse: I guess I do.
Ariane Chavasse: You'd enjoyed it even if you weren't paid for it!
Claude Chavasse: I wouldn't go that far.
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Love in the Afternoon Facts
To dispel any impression that Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper actually have sex in their many afternoon meetings in his hotel room, a line was dubbed into the release print. When his back is turned to the camera in Chevalier's office, Cooper is heard to say, "I can't get to first base with her."
The original ending of the film just showed the two lovers departing together on a train, which threatened to land the film on the Catholic Legion of Decency's "Condemned List." As a result, Maurice Chevalier was called back to do the voice-over heard at the close of the film, in which he reports that the couple are "now married and serving a life sentence in New York City."
The movie was a critical and commercial disaster on release. Many critics felt that the 55-year-old Gary Cooper, whose health was rapidly failing, should have realized that he was far too old for the part and turned it down, as Cary Grant did.
The Japanese newspaper article on Frank Flannagan does not mention him, but rather reads "The great newspaper king Kane dies". This is the same article from Citizen Kane, with the name and picture of Frank Flannagan added in.
The recurring line "Pepsi Cola hits the spot" refers to the then-current jingle for the soft drink.
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