Come September (1961)

Premiered August 9, 1961 in Beverly Hills

Comedy, USA, 1961,Technicolor, running time 112 minutes

A 7 Rivers Corporation,Raoul Walsh Enterprises Inc. Production

Story by Stanley Roberts and Robert Russell

Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin

Music by Hans J. Salter & Bobby Darin ("Multiplication" and theme)

Music Supervision: Joseph Gershenson

Producer: Robert Arthur

Director: Robert Mulligan

Studio: Universal International

Cast:

Rock Hudson: Robert L. Talbot
Gina Lollobrigida: Lisa Fellini
Sandra Dee: Sandy Stevens
Bobby Darin: Tony
Walter Slezak: Maurice Clavel
Brenda De Banzie: Margaret Allison
Joel Grey: Beagle
Rosanna Rory: Anna
Ronnie Haran: Sparrow
Chris Seitz: Larry
Cindy Conroy: Julia
Joan Freeman: Linda
Nancy Anderson: Patricia
Michael Eden: Ron
Claudia Black: Carol
Marvin Hamlisch: At the piano in nightclub (we think)

Plot Summary:

Every September American millionaire Robert L. Talbot stays in his villa at the beautiful Italian Riviera together with his Roman girl-friend Lisa Fellini. One year he arrives already in July - quite unexpected by Lisa, who is in the midst of preparations to marry an Englishman, as she sees no future in an one-month-per-year relationship. Yet when Robert calls, she drops everything, packs her bags, and catches the next train to meet Robert at his villa.

Robert's early arrival also surprises Maurice Clavel, his villa's major domus, who secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel all the time that Robert is away. Maurice manages to hide away the most obvious evidence and even to explain the presence of six giggling, 18-year-old girls, their chaperon Miss Allison, and a parakeet, as an act of mercy. Also he tells Miss Allison and Sandy Stevens, one of the girls, a wild story to explain Robert's strange behavior towards them.