Love on Location: Hollywood Falls In Love Italian Style (Substack exclusive)
American filmmakers turn to post war Italy to give audiences romance and adventure.
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Hollywood studios embarked on a cinematic journey, producing a series of romantic dramas set in and filmed on location in Italy. The trailblazer of this post-war Italian romance cycle was the 1950 film "September Affair," starring Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotton.
Emerging in the wake of the Italian neorealist movement, "Sept…
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