The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
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| director = Franco Brusati
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| writer = Franco Brusati
Ennio De Concini
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| starring = Virna Lisi
George Segal
Lila Kedrova
Paola Pitagora
Akim Tamiroff
| music = Riz Ortolani
| cinematography = Ennio Guarnieri
| editing = Franco Arcalli
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| released = {{Film date|1968}}
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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.{{cite news|last=Kevin Thomas|title='Girl Couldn't Say No' Playing Citywide Run|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=March 27, 1970}} It was referred as "a successful attempt to refresh the American sophisticated comedy with themes and sensibilities of today"{{cite book|last=Enrico Giacovelli|title=Un secolo di cinema italiano, 1900-1999: Dalle origini agli anni Sessanta|publisher=Lindau, 2002|isbn=8871804120}} and its style was compared to Frank Capra's.Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, B & N, Volume 30, Società 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-couldnt-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 (1917–1993)’, 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.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0065048|The Girl Who Couldn't Say No}}
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Category:Films directed by Franco Brusati
Category:Films scored by Riz Ortolani
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