That Kind of Woman

That Kind of Woman
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Produced by Marcello Girosi
Carlo Ponti
Written by Robert Lowry
Walter Bernstein
Starring Sophia Loren
Tab Hunter
Music by Daniele Amfitheatrof
Cinematography Boris Kaufman
Edited by Howard A. Smith
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
  • June 1959 (1959-06) (Berlin)
  • September 11, 1959 (1959-09-11) (U.S.)
Running time
92 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $1 million (est. US/Canada rentals)[1]

That Kind of Woman (1959) is an American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, who was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.[2] It stars Sophia Loren and Tab Hunter. The screenplay by Walter Bernstein, based on a short story by Robert Lowry ("Layover in El Paso"), is highly reminiscent of the 1938 film The Shopworn Angel.

The Paramount Pictures release was filmed on location in New York City and Long Beach, New York.[3][4]

Plot

The film is set during World War II. Kay is a sophisticated Italian woman, the mistress of a Manhattan millionaire industrialist known simply as The Man, who uses her to help him influence his contacts at The Pentagon. While en route from Miami to New York City by train, she and her friend Jane meet a considerably younger American paratrooper named Red and his sergeant George Kelly, and Kay and Red fall into a romantic relationship. Eventually the woman finds herself torn between her upscale life in a Sutton Place apartment and the prospect of true love with the GI.

Principal cast

Principal production credits

Critical reception

In his review in the New York Times, Bosley Crowther stated, "Walter Bernstein's screen play is a breezy, banal and bumptious thing, and Sidney Lumet has directed it with so many close-ups that it looks like a travesty of a "silent" style.[5] TV Guide describes it as "a ridiculously clichéd soap opera" with "the same kind of artificial shallowness that mars many of Loren's pictures." [6]

References

  1. "1959: Probable Domestic Take", Variety, 6 January 1960 [ 34
  2. "IMDB.com: Awards for That Kind of Woman". imdb.com. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
  3. Sophia Loren - That Kind of Woman (1959)
  4. Tracking Back in Time (photo). Long Beach Patch. November 9, 2010.
  5. New York Times review
  6. TV Guide review
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