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The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
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Wikipedia article
'Tenderly' (internationally released as 'The Girl Who Couldn't Say No', also known as 'Il suo modo di fare') is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Franco Brusati. It was referred as "a successful attempt to refresh the American sophisticated comedy with themes and sensibilities of today" and its style was compared to Frank Capra's.Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, 'B & N', Volume 30, Societ Gestione Editoriali, 1969.
Plot
After fifteen years apart, a young, motivated surgeon named Franco (Segal) runs into his childhood friend Yolanda (Lisi) in Rome. They fall in love and travel to Florence together, but Yolanda's unpredictable, often unusual personality makes the future of their relationship highly uncertain.[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/76399/The-Girl-Who-Couldn-t-Say-No/ Turner Classic Movies plot overview]
Cast
* Virna Lisi : Yolanda
* George Segal : Franco
* Lila Kedrova : Yolanda's Mother
* Akim Tamiroff : Uncle Egidio
* Paola Pitagora : Widow
* Mario Brega : Cripple
* Riccardo Billi : Salesman
* Anne Cumming : Franco's motherRichard Davenport-Hines, Cumming, (Felicity) Anne (19171993), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51816, accessed 11 April 2017]
Production
It was known during shooting as 'Runaround'.Strike Halts George Segal Movie
Dorothy Manners:. The Washington Post and Times-Herald 16 Mar 1968: D10.
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