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This was Audrey Hepburn’s debut in a starring role. She was 24-years-old and had appeared in two or three other movies but unprejudiced in bit parts. Here she plays a reigning European princess visiting Rome who would like an rush from her daily regime of official duties, thus the title and theme of the movie, a Roman holiday.
Gregory Peck plays an American newspaper reporter living in the Eternal City. We first gape him playing poker with his cronies, and losing. His relative “poverty” and Princess Ann’s amazing wealth and space exhibit a formidable barrier to their ever finding fair worship and marital happiness. Fraction of the fun of the script is in seeing how this will play out and how their differences are resolved in the kill. I will give you a puny hint: very carefully!
The script comes from a epic by Dalton Trumbo who is perhaps best known as the author of the anti-war current, Johnny Got His Gun. Trumbo was one of the “Hollywood Ten” who were blacklisted from working in the industry during the excesses of the McCarthy era. He went to Mexico and continued working on film scripts but under assumed names or had his scripts presented by “fronts.” In this case Ian McLellan Hunter fronted for Trumbo and won an Academy Award for the chronicle. Later the Academy awarded Trumbo a posthumous Oscar for his work.
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Long time Hollywood studio director William Wyler directed the film entirely on region in Rome. He has a formidable list of credits going well succor into the restful film era including such outstanding films as Wuthering Heights (1939), The Letter (1940), The Diminutive Foxes (1941), etc. His determined directorial style and his attention to detail work well here. The sets in Rome are charming, especially Peck’s bachelor apartment. The bit players, especially Peck’s landlord are worthy and the events are dreamy in unbiased the draw a romantic meeting in Rome ought to be. Wyler is especially effective in presenting Audrey Hepburn in the most flattering light and getting the audience to identify with her.
Gregory Peck’s character should be a bit of an adventurous rake who finds that appreciate is more significant than money or fame, but it is impossible for Peck to play a morally compromised character, and so even as he appears to be using Princess Ann for his possess ends, his behavior is always lawful. I was somewhat amused to peer that at all times Peck appears wearing a tie! Eddie Albert plays Peck’s friend, a photographer/artist. It is intriguing to designate how Hollywood’s perception of the paparazzi has changed over the years. Here blood-sucking, intrusive greed does not exist. Instead we have well-behaved self-sacrifice!
I have seen most of Miss Hepburn’s movies and I can say that she was never more absorbing than she is here. She is glorious and cute at the same time, charming and naughty, sweet, regal and very winning. In a sense she started at the top with this film, garnering her only Oscar as Best Actress in 1953; but as her fans know she never came down off that pedestal. Even playing awful Eliza Doolittle in My Sparkling Lady (1964), there was never any doubt about the quality of her style and character.
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This is the most romantic film I have ever seen, perhaps partly because Miss Hepburn is so extraordinary, but also because the script in a sense turns the usual woman’s romantic fantasy upside down. Instead of the woman finding that the man she is in care for with has wonderful wealth and area, it is the other draw around!
The ending manages to be realistic yet romantic. There is a hint of something almost spiritual beyond what happens. So convincing are Hepburn and Peck that one can almost have the chronicle is true; and indeed I am determined that Trumbo lifted the essentials of the state from some outmoded legend.
I have a weakness for movies about unrequited care for, or appreciate that goes on forever, or appreciate that is caught at some perfect moment and lives eternally in that moment. Roman Holiday is one of those arrive perfect movies that plays beautifully upon one of these themes.
ROMAN HOLIDAY should appeal to everyone who loves a beneficial romance, and this one is a immense one. The rest us of will be well train with the splendor of Rome and the chance to witness the noteworthy Audrey Hepburn in her debut movie. In other words, ROMAN HOLIDAY has something for every palate.
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The set? Princess Ann (we’re never quite distinct which country she’s princess of) is enduring a grueling tour of European nations. Weary to death of the royal treatment, one night Ann escapes into the Roman night. Unfortunately for her she had a while earlier been given an injection to succor her sleep. The drug takes execute while she’s out and about, and reporter Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck) discovers her asleep on a street bench. Believing she’s inebriated, and being a gentleman, he tries to teach her safely to her home. That understanding fails and, being a gentleman, Bradley arranges for the young stranger (he doesn’t learn she’s the missing princess until the next scene) to sleep on the sofa in his exiguous, one-room apartment.
Cary Grant was originally offered the portion of Joe Bradley and he turned it down. One of the dvd’s specials tells us he refused the role because he didn’t want to play second fiddle to an ingenue. Maybe so. It’s tempting to resolve, on the basis of this scene, that Peck was woefully miscast. Ann, nearly asleep on her feet, asks Bradley “Will you back me undress? ” A natural enough quiz coming from royalty, I guess. Bradley fumbles around with her neck scarf, unties it, hands it to her and says “You can handle the rest.”
Peck plays the scene for a smile. Grant would have made it one of the highlights of the movie. After savoring the opportunity for the audience’s delight he would have removed the tie and given the camera a expeditiously notice, as if to say “Listen here, I know this is a cliched, laughable dwelling. But doesn’t this watch like fun. Don’t we create a resplendent couple? ” Grant was a supple pagan god who drank more than once from the well of hedonism, and he was always careful to bring the audience along for the gracious times. Peck was an Extinct Testament prophet, a shrimp too stern and stiff to give himself over to pleasure.
What Peck brings to the role is authority and a delicate arm for Hepburn to rest on. Grant would have distracted us, and ROMAN HOLIDAY is best when our attention is focused squarely on Audrey Hepburn. She delivers a tour de force performance, and you can understand the excitement she generated even after a half century.
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The specials include the documentary “Remembering ROMAN HOLIDAY”, which surprised me with all the people who were interested and dropped out of the production of the movie. “Edith Head: The Paramount Years” is a short biography of the renowned and talented fashion designer. “Restoring ROMAN HOLIDAY” shows us a number of before and after shots – this is a VERY neat print. There is also a trio of theatrical trailers and a stills photo gallery.
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