Hotel Paradiso
Date: 1966
Director: Peter Glenville
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Stars: Alec Guinness, Gina Lollobrigida
Location(s): Paris
Region(s): France
Storyline:
Suffering from writer’s block, a playwright struggles to pen a new play before the opportunity arises to observe his upper class neighbours.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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Paris, 1900. La Belle Époque. What peace, what bliss. Not even a ripple seemed to disturb the even tenure of each day.
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Rowing to the shore, playwright Georges Feydeau (Peter Glenville) is helped from his boat.
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Walking to the nearby road, the writer catches an omnibus.
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The omnibus carries Monsieur Feydeau to a stop near his home.
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George Feydeau tips his hat at a passing carriage.
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Suffering from writer's block, Monsieur Feydeau opens the window of his villa when he hears arguing in the courtyard below. The AFI Catalog website advises that location shooting took place at a private villa in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district of the 6th arrondissement while interiors were filmed at Studios de Saint-Maurice in Saint-Maurice to the east of Paris.
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On the terrace, Marcelle Cotte (Gina Lollobrigida) shouts at her husband Henri Cotte (Robert Morley).
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Across the courtyard, Angelique Boniface (Peggy Mount) calls down to her husband Benedict who has intervened in the row.
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Escaping from his domineering wife, Benedict Boniface (Alec Guinness) climbs over the roof of the villa.
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Watched by Monsieur Feydeau, the henpecked engineer makes his way down the walls of the building.
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Boniface leaves the villa to meet with Marcelle Cotte at Place Vendôme.
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On her way to visit her ill sister, Angelique Boniface is involved in an accident when a motor car almost runs into the gig she is travelling in.
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A carriage arrives outside Hotel Paradiso at 220 Rue de Provence bringing building inspector Henri Cotte to inspect the sanitation in one of the rooms . . . the same hotel that his wife and Boniface are making for after dining together.
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Returning from a night with Maxime at Hotel Paradiso, Boniface's maid Victoire (Ann Beach) returns home.
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Monsieur Feydeau raises his hat to Marcelle Cotte as she appears from Boniface's house.
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The playwright turns to see a vegetable cart bringing Angelique home.