The Monte Carlo Story is a 1957

1957 in film

The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue-Awards:...

, Italian

Italy

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 comedy-drama

Comedy-drama

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 film production made by Titanus

Titanus

Titanus is an Italian film production company, founded in 1904 by Gustavo Lombardo . The company's headquarters are located at 28 Via Sommacampagna, Rome and its studios on the Via Tiburtina, 13 km from the centre of Rome....

 and distributed by United Artists

United Artists

United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks....

. Samuel A. Taylor

Samuel A. Taylor

Samuel A. Taylor was an American playwright and screenwriter.Born Samuel Albert Tanenbaum, in a Jewish family, in Chicago, Illinois, Taylor made his Broadway debut as author of the play The Happy Time in 1950. He wrote the play Sabrina Fair in 1953 and co-wrote its film adaptation the following year...

 directed, and also wrote the screenplay

Screenplay

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 based on a story by Marcello Girosi and Dino Risi. Marcello Girosi produced the film, which was the first shot in the Technirama

Technirama

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 process. Jean Louis

Jean Louis

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 designed the costumes.

The film stars Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...

 and Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio de Sica

Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

 with Arthur O'Connell

Arthur O'Connell

Arthur O'Connell was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in films in 1941 and television programs...

, Natalie Trundy

Natalie Trundy

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, Mischa Auer

Mischa Auer

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 and Renato Rascel

Renato Rascel

Renato Ranucci, in art Renato Rascel was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1942 and 1972...

.

Plot

The story takes place against the backdrop of the glorious French Riviera. Marlene Dietrich plays a woman with a lot of class, but no money to satisfy her taste for the best things in life. She is dazzled by Count Della Fiabe, who is also trying to recuperate his debts at the gambling tables of the famous casino. To attract the woman, who he thinks is his meal ticket, the poor Italian noble man enlists the help of the same people to whom he owes money.

The film's most famous scene comes toward the end when Marlene Dietrich sings "Back Home in Indiana" in a seedy bistro for the enjoyment of Homer Hinckley, who she feels will be the man to make her rich.

Cast

• Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
  
   : Maria de Crevecoeur
• Vittorio De Sica
  Vittorio de Sica
  Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....
  
   : Comte Dino della Fiaba
• Arthur O'Connell
  Arthur O'Connell
  Arthur O'Connell was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in films in 1941 and television programs...
  
   : M. Homer Hinkley
• Jane Rose : Mme Edith Freeman
• Mischa Auer
  Mischa Auer
  Mischa Auer was a Russian-born American actor.-Early life:Auer was born Mikhail Semyonovich Unskovsky in St. Petersburg, Russia...
  
   : Hector
• Clelia Matania
  Clelia Matania
  Clelia Matania was a British born, Italian actress.Born in London, she appeared in British films between 1936 and 1937 and in Italy runs films with Totò-Actress: *Melody of My Heart...
  
   : Sophia
• Truman Smith
  Truman Smith
  Truman Smith was a politician, lawyer and judge from Connecticut. He was the nephew of Nathaniel Smith and Nathan Smith....
  
   : M. Fred Freeman
• Alberto Rabagliati
  Alberto Rabagliati
  Alberto Rabagliati was an Italian singer.- Early career:Rabagliati was born in Milan.In 1927 he moved to Hollywood as the winner of a Rudolph Valentino look-alike contest...
  
   : Albert
• Carlo Rizzo : Henri, un marin
• Frank Colson : Walter Peeples
• Natalie Trundy
  Natalie Trundy
  Natalie Trundy is an American actress, and the widow of movie producer Arthur P. Jacobs.She made a sizeable contribution to the Planet of the Apes movie series during the 1970s. She appeared as the telepathic mutant Albina in the first sequel, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, as Dr...
  
   : Jane Hinkley
• Renato Rascel
  Renato Rascel
  Renato Ranucci, in art Renato Rascel was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1942 and 1972...
  
   : Duval
• Pierre Marcarino : le croupier

External links

• Movie Locations for Monte Carlo Story