Love in the Afternoon (1957)

Directed by Billy Wilder. With Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver. A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.

An aging playboy hires a detective to locate a mysterious young woman.

Overview of Love in the Afternoon, 1957, directed by Billy Wilder, with Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, at Turner Classic Movies

An all-star cast, led by screen legends Gary Cooper ("High Noon") and the always enchanting Audrey Hepburn ("Breakfast at Tiffany's"), are featured in this e...

Okay, maybe Audrey Hepburn being all adorable isn't motivation enough. Here are seven more reasons to tune into KCET's Sunday night broadcast of "Love in...

Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.

Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder which stars Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the Claude Anet novel Ariane, jeune fille russe , which had been filmed as Scampolo in 1928 and Scampolo, ein Kind der Strasse in 1932, the latter with a script co-written by Wilder. Wilder was inspired by a 1931 German adaptation of the novel Ariane directed by Paul Czinner.[5] None of these works is related to the last of Éric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales," the 1972 film L'Amour l'après-midi .

Directed by: Billy Wilder Written By: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond Based on Claude Anet`s novel “Ariane, jeune fille russe” Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver, Van Doude, Lise Bourdin How could film critics from the 1950s not appreciate such a wonderful and touching story of two people, even though there was such…

With Love in the Afternoon, its high points make up for its lulls. There are fantastic perfs, plus the film is gorgeous to look at and a lot of light fun.