This morning my beloved pet parrot passed away. In order to find good music to accompany her, I came to RU-vid and watched an old Hollywood movie. Accidentally, this movie popped up afterward and I kept watching, it did bring me comfort after losing my bird. thanks for sharing it.
Losing a beloved pet is always difficult. (I'm terrible at it.) But then I have a place and space to offer some rescue pet that really needs an understanding home to give it safe harbor. At the moment, I have one dog, two cats, and five birds. My family. 😊
I wanted so much to travel to Europe. I was fortunate to go to China and Turkey and 2 Mexico trips. So I loved this movie not just for the romance but for the virtual trip to Venice. Thank you for sharing.
On a trip to Venice once, just a short walk from the Rialto bridge, there is a shop that was used in this film, with all the press cuttings from the film etc, in the window. The owners are only too happy to tell the story of their shop being in the film. 👍
Yes he is. My father in his younger years looked like him but I knew him as a bald sweet man. And I would have loved to have a conversation with both my mother and father or just one about their romance. We only got the how we met story. My mother was pretty also but a little like Katherine Hepburn to know her is to love her.❤❤❤
Rossano Brazzi, what a dream!! I adored him in South Pacific. That scene where Katherine gives the Italian boy a cigarette is hilarious! That would never fly now, too funny
I saw this beautiful movie many years ago and has always stayed in my memory as a classic. I have literally finished watching this and want to thank you for streaming such a CLASS MOVIE.
Dr. Zhivago is my very, very favorite Lean flick of all time! I have seen it at least 7 times and find something "new" every time. His screenplays are vivid and complicated--in a profound way.
@@Lolly1122dooda I believe many others can as well. More than you think! Life can become so tough when you aren't able to be conventional and partnered up like the majority out there. So much of society is geared towards partnerships that at times it feels almost cruel to be so obviously singled out as the relationship-challenged reject.
I was there 10 years ago, St Marks Square was totally flooded, which happens a lot, basically Venice is a bunch of islands sitting on an ocean, folks sloshed around with water up to their knees. Amazing to see works by Tintoretto and Titian still in situ in the churches. Italian food, esp baguette is the best in the world.
When Katharine Hepburn filmed the scene for Summertime, where she falls into the canal, one of her eyes became infected. That infection stayed with her for the rest of her life. RIP. ❤❤❤
She should have had a double at least for the fall into the water . I would not have put her thru that scene she was a major star and didn’t need to get drenched in cold murky water.
She swam daily at the beach even during winter well into her 80s. Plunged into the Canal was nothing to her. Obviously they didn’t think about the sanitation of the water in the canal.
The other eye was affected by soot from her first train trip to Hollywood! She was interviewed at MGM with a swollen eye...amazing how the body somehow copes. Eyes are something you don't want to lose.
David Lean shoots Venice like a travelogue and it becomes a character in its own right. Often slow but adds to the beauty of the film about a brief holiday romance.
There’s a part missing in the film right at the end, when Hepburn comes to meet Brassi at the outdoor cafe….she tells him she’s leaving sooner rather than later because she’d rather leave before the party’s over. It’s the culmination, and somebody cut it out??
I agree with someone who commented before. Thanks for posting what you did. I bought the movie on Amazon Prime so I could see the last scenes & they are probably the best in the movie. Very poignant. Heart breaking for Renato. She made a mistake. She should've stayed. Big mistake. I hope she goes back.
But I am like her in that I have a conscience and KNOW that it would be heartless to fall in love with a MARRIED “lying” man. I would have left Italy without telling him ASAP. How terrible that he would NOT want his wife to have gondola friends but he’s out and about chasing women. YUK!
@@JESUSISLORDforevermore888 I totally understand and agree with you, in an ideal world. I just think that in the context of Jane being so unsuccessful in love all her life, sometimes you're so hungry for what seems to come so easily to others, you'll go for any opportunity in order to keep from being devastatingly sad and lonely. Imagine what life would be like being single for so long, and yet for the most part, putting forth a happy and sunny image. It's no wonder she liked drinking! With no judgment on her character or similar people in real life, I understand why they get into these situations.
Yes , the music recital for Jane, when they say goodbye scene on d bridge Is missing.. I love old movies where sensuality is less but deep with feelings.
I never get tired of watching this movie. It is a the top of my favourites list. So disappointing though that this upload is missing an important chunk of the movie near the end when Jane tells Renato that she is going home. Shame!
Having watched the film today it has been cut even further. The very end when Renato is running along the platform is completely missing thereby the symbolic significance of his carrying the Gardenia for her is also missing and incidentally Jane falling in the canal earlier in the film is also missing,. Is someone messing around with this film making illegal edits or something. The film needs all of the conversations they are natural and beautifuilly acted it is a great insensitivity to cut parts of this film
I don't like to think that is the end of the story. She knows where he is and he wanted her to feel loved with the gardenia at the station they aren;t cheap even today. No it is a cliff hanger and a lovely one. David Lean working his filmic magic, He loved this film best of all.!!
As a single older woman I would certainly not be moping around Venice feeling sorry for myself. Nor would most women of that age. That would have happened in our 20s, if at all.
I’m sorry for character was lost on you. Such a uplifting narrative and there would be no story, had she not arrived feeling melancholy. A good story is lost on you, people like you should stick to trash TV shows and leave these masterpieces alone.
I was a teenager in 1955 when this movie came out. I fell in love with the theme music from this film (Summertime in Venice), which became a popular song that was played frequently on the radio, and I was a big fan of both Katharine Hepburn and director David Lean. I saw a lot of great movies in the fifties, but for some reason, I didn't get around to seeing this film when it came out, and in all the years that have passed, I never had a chance to see it until now. To the person who posted it on here, I'd like to say Thank you! Also, this is a beautiful color scan of the film, so I'm getting to see it the way it would have looked in a theater more than half a century ago. ADDED LATER: I did feel that the film ended too abruptly with part of the story missing, and after reading many of the other comments, I've learned that part of the ending is actually missing, which is disappointing.
He certainly has a confident demeanour and he is sincere .You sense that he knows how 'locked in' she is and how she yearns to break out of her own restrictions and he helps her.She becomes the passionate loving woman that she is. The end is wonderful because we hope she returns to Venice staying inexpensively with him and making them both happy.
Great movie. Not sure anyone would really believe Hepburn was a spinster in the last chance saloon for romance, or that she had been saving up forever for the trip, ah but....
I LOVE this film, but just so you know for those who have not seen it before, there are two significant scenes in this copy towards the end that have been edited out, such a shame 😟
Astounding tour de force as Hepburn carries the film.Beautifully portraide and believable.Her inner confilcts and morallity prevented her in the beginning from grasping the joy and love she was was being shown and desperately wanted really. He was sincere with her and showed such tenderness. Because she was so buttoned down He could see it and literally 'loved her. ' out of it The photography was out of this world and the dialogue all the way through was natural and utterly believable..A wonderful piece of art work of David Lean. I can see why this was his favourite picture.
Fun Fact: I did a bit of calculating and research (might be wrong) and apparently, the goblet would know be worth 410 € (circa for the price of 10.000 Lire). The lady though only paid 350€ (for 8.700 Lire).
@28:36 you can see Tom's old flag of his heritage that I had for years in a brown little lunch sack, I gave it back to him. I thought he was Scots-Irish nope if the flag is where he's from, that would be Venice in France where they have the Gondola's. Share the pic with dad & Aunt Jen too she might be interested or she may have the flag by now. It was very old. I do so hope they have it.
Notice that on both sides of the canal there’s no sign’s advertising cigarettes, liquor, designer clothing brands. No one is talking on their phone, taking selfie’s, begging for money.
That’s my favorite film. It was the first Golden Age film I ever watched. Rassano Brazzi is so dreamy. Can you post the movie “barefoot contessa” with Ava Gardner?
In the original stage play Brazzi is a gigolo but in the film he has genuine affection. There is part of the film missing I have learnt when Katharine tells him she is going to go home, He doesn't want her to go. Katherine is giving mixed messages she doesn't want him to come the station to see her off whilst still hoping that he comes to the station which he does with a Gardenia, It is worth noting that Katherine in her real life had such a relationship for many many years with Spencer Tracey. Tracey did separate from his wife but did not divorce his wife. The plot of the film is a beautiful story and I think on a higher level than a 'fling'. A cliff-hanger ending to the film but I like to think that she writes to him and they meet many times over the years holding their affection for each other.
If you are going to ruin a film by chopping it up, you should inform your viewers! Of course, otherwise you’d be CHARGING for it ; the greed of RU-vid is endless.
this is such a lovely movie. The beauty of Venice, the way the italian atmosphere is shown through certain sequences, the romantic music, everything is so so beautiful, especially that this was filmed during the 50s, when everything was still delightful and pensions like this one still existed. Last time i visited Venice it was extremely crowded (the San Marco place was FULL) and only few restaurants and hotels were open, because venetians dont live there anymore (most of them). These days, the city introduced new restrictive rules about visiting because of the damage that tourism brings to this area. The movie was splendidly made, the main actor is really handsome and genuine, my only regret is that Katherine seemed too old and ugly for the role and in comparison with the male. I never liked her looks, although she was an amazing actress, but they could have chosen a much better looking lady, to honor the beauty of this movie shot in stunning Venice.
I think you missed the point, this story is about an old spinster who missed out on her chance to find love in her youth. Then, on a trip to Venice, she gets to experience the love she missed out on. So, I'd say that the casting was perfect and Katharine Hepburn was exactly the right actress for the part. The story would have made no sense with a young actress, like Debbie Reynolds, playing the part. Also, Hepburn was 48 in 1955 and Brazzi was 37, so she was actually only eleven years older than he was at the time the film was made. And, although Hepburn was never a great beauty, she did manage to look radiant in the scenes where she was falling in love.
@@itisonlyadream yes, when you put it this way it does make more sense. But i still feel disturbed by her looks in comparison with the beauty of the whole movie.
@@dumitriudaniela You are certainly entitled to your opinion. But please remember, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and "Beauty is only skin deep". To me, Kate had an inner beauty that shone through in some of her performances. In my opinion, What she lacked in superficial beauty was more than made up for by her extraordinary acting ability. I saw The African Queen in a theater when it was released in 1951, and even as a kid, I was blown away by her performance.
@@itisonlyadream yes, she had iindeed an extraordinary acting ability, i agree. I am an artist though and for me, beauty is key, which is why, where there is no physical and vibrational beauty, it is hard for me to witness something, even a great actress like her. I never liked her vibe (which is something else than beauty), but i do appreciate her acting.
To me, Katharine Hepburn was never that ugly. Joan Crawford, with her painted on face, is the actress I always thought was butt ugly. I thought she looked like a mean woman, and that was long before "Mommie Dearest", the tell-all book by her daughter Christina came out. Betty Davis was also not known as a beautiful actress, she often took parts where she looked plain and unattractive. Davis said she wanted to be taken seriously (for her acting ability), so she turned down parts that made her look glamorous and opted instead for good scripts. I saw Davis in a TV interview and she said she wanted to be remembered as a "serious actress". Davis said good roles were all that mattered to her. She said she was never interested in being known as a glamorous "movie star". Like I said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Hello miss, you have to understand when the strip was being scanned, it probably missed or skipped some parts of the movie. I hope you understand the situation.
@@thecountrysheriffacp4524 No, there should be no section of this movie missing !🤬 Do it again and do it right ! What kind of sheriff are you anyway? 🤬
