In the film, Margaret hires a tutor for Clara for teaching and companionship.Margaret has a grown son, who isn’t mentioned in the movie.Sullivan’s Noel is slightly softer in the film than the book, which describes him as extremely well-planned and traditional to a fault. In the film, Noel (played by Barry Sullivan) flies to Italy to evaluate the situation. The book version of Noel stays in the United States. In the book, Margaret only thinks about her husband Noel’s reactions and the two talk on the phone.
The film is lovely and reflects the novel well, staying fairly true to the written word. Not to mention, Mimieux wears gorgeous dresses by Dolly Smith and de Havilland wears Dior frocks. Filmed on location in Italy, cinematographer Otto Heller beautifully captures the light and beauty of Florence and Rome. The film features a gorgeous, sweeping score by Mario Nascimbene. Mimieux is perfect at playing a childlike adult, doing little things like playing while she’s walking or blowing into her straw to shoot the paper wrapper off across the table.
The light in the piazza la opera movie#
This is a favorite film of mine, so I was pleased that the film and the movie were so similar.
Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, George Hamilton and Yvette Mimieux in the film version of LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA. George Hamilton played Fabrizio with Rossano Brazzi as his father. Olivia de Havilland starred as Margaret Johnson and Yvette Mimieux as her daughter Clara. Spencer’s “Light in the Piazza” was a success, selling two million dollars and was made into a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film in 1962. The setting and the characters make for a study of two cultures and mannerisms giving “clear pictures of both without taking sides,” Louis Dollarhide wrote in his Clarion-Ledger review, published on Nov. While the setting is in Italy, Spencer still focuses on southern roots while having the Johnson family hail from North Carolina.
“But it took me, all told, about a month to write.” “A work written under great compulsion, while I was under the spell of Italy,” she said. She later said that as she watched the snow in Canada, she started thinking of the light in Italy that she described as “the sense that everything is clear and visible, that nothing is withheld.” Spencer traveled in Italy as a part of the Guggenheim Fellowship, and then traveled to Canada. Olivia de Havilland and Yvette Mimieux as Margaret and Clara Johnson in “Light in the Piazza.” The romance brings Margaret to dream about Clara’s future and if she can have an adult, married life. While in Florence, the Johnsons meet Fabrizio, who is drawn to Clara and woos him. She was kicked in the head by her pony, and though Clara is 26, she still acts like she is 10 years old. Unbeknownst to most people is that Clara had an accident when she was a child. The novella and film follow Winston-Salem, N.C., natives Margaret Johnson and her grown daughter Clara on a trip to Florence, Italy. “The whole idea of a woman in the arts must have horrified my family at first.” It was considered that men did all the interesting things out in the world and women were pretty much reduced to a domestic pattern or minor careers,” Spencer was quoted in her Washington Post obituary. It was her first novel not set in her home state of Mississippi, and it was her first book that featured a female protagonist. The book “Light in the Piazza” was a turning point in the career of Mississippi-born author, Elizabeth Spencer featuring many firsts for her. Clara loses her hat causing her to meet Fabrizio - just like in the film.įrom page one, this Italian love story was a much needed respite after finishing Glendon Swarthout’s book “ Where the Boys Are.” In the opening pages, Margaret Johnson and her daughter Clara explore a piazza. When Elizabeth Spencer’s 1960 novella “Light in the Piazza” was adapted for film, the movie is nearly identical to the original printed word. As soon as I started reading the book, I could see the story playing out in my head just as it does in the movie.
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