September Affair, The

Date: 1950
Director: William Dieterle
Production Company: Paramount

Stars: Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotton, Jessica Tandy
Location(s): Rome, Naples, Capri, Pompeii, Florence

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Storyline:

Fontaine and Cotton fall in love in a whirlwind romance and when their deaths are mistakenly reported in a plane crash they take the opportunity to start a new life together, leaving their past behind.

Additional Information:

All stills by SJ.

 

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  • 17 Aug 2009

Piazza della Repubblica, Rome.

Now. SJ.

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  • 17 Aug 2009

Cotton alights at the Piazza.

Now pedestrianised. SJ.

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  • 17 Aug 2009

Fontaine in the covered colonnade of the Piazza della Repubblica.

All these are on the west side. SJ.

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  • 17 Aug 2009

Leaving on the bus for the airport.

Now. SJ.

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Naples.

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  • 23 Oct 2014

A Neapolitan street... This is the main shopping gallery in Napoli, I believe. JT.

Well spotted, JT: the Galleria Umberto I opposite the teatro San Carlo, as opposed to the Galleria Principe seen in The Talented Mr Ripley. This is the east facing branch. (All points of the compass look very similar, and the scaffolding doesn't help.) SJ

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A restaurant with a view of Vesuvius. Sbrescia, Rampe San Antonio a Posillipo 109, Naples. (SR)

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  • 05 Nov 2009

On a tower in Pompeii.

The tower is somewhat out of bounds so this is the best angle. Torre XI to the north of Pompeii. SJ.

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  • 22 Oct 2014

An oven at Pompeii.

After three tries in several years, I finally found the right one. Pistorum di Popidius Priscus. Regio VII, Insula 2, 22

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  • 05 Nov 2009

Stepping stones at Pompeii. See the cover of Latin I by SRH James for a similar shot. Forgive the plug.

The Via di Stabia on the intersection with Via dell'Abbondanza. SJ.

  • Capture 11
  • 05 Nov 2009

Tempio di Apollo, Pompeii.

Now. SJ.

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  • 05 Nov 2009

The forum, Pompeii.

The south end of the forum. SJ.

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  • 05 Nov 2009

Capri: same hotel where C. Gable stayed here 10 years later in It Started in Naples. This is overlooking the Piazza Umberto I, Capri Town, also seen in Darling and Another Simple Favour.

The enrance leads to a Banca di Roma cashpoint. SJ.

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  • 21 Oct 2011

Window shopping in Capri town.

Via Vittorio Emanuele III opposite the Hotel La Palma. And Massa is still going after 61 years. SJ

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  • 05 Nov 2009

Piazza Umberto I, Capri Town.

Piazza Umberto I, where, surprise surprise, there's another film crew in action, in fact for the Italian TV show called, er, "Capri". SJ.

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  • 19 Oct 2012

Now in the east side of Capri in the Villa Iovis area, but I'm having trouble making it match.

Ah it's in a closed off area, hence the trouble, now solved. This is by the tower used by emperor Tiberius to signal the mainland. SJ

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  • 19 Oct 2012

Monte Tiberio in the background.

Same place as above. SJ

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  • 21 Oct 2011

Overlooking western Capri and Marina Grande.

Not quite the right place but certainly the right coastline. SJ

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  • 21 Oct 2011

Marina Piccola, I Faraglione, a few yards from where Christie sunbathed in Darling.

And using an ordinary lens so a bit of distortion unless I'm in the wrong place. SJ

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Naples on the Castel dell'Ovo promontory with Vesuvius in the background.

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  • 17 Aug 2009

Reverse shot. Definitely Twickenham-ish.

Not quite the same place but look at the three buildings to the left. Same background and same angle. SJ.

  • Capture 22
  • 06 Sep 2014

Florence, from south of the Arno. Similar views were seen in 'The Statue' and 'Hannibal'.

Taken from Piazzale Michelangelo, Firenze. With thanks to Giuseppe Patti. (PW)

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  • 06 Sep 2014

Walking down to the river alongside the Galleria degli Uffizi.

Tourists and building work in the same spot. (PW)

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  • 06 Sep 2014

Cotton and Fontaine on the Lungarno Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici overlooking the Ponte Vecchio.

The same, rather crowded, location now. (PW)

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Piazza del Duomo, the cathedral to the left.

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And again, looking at the door of the Battistero.

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Piazza della Signoria.

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Piazza della Signoria.

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The Orgagna is still going.

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The front gates of the house with its view seen in saf022.