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Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic comedy. The film introduced American audiences to Belgian-born actress Audrey Hepburn, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert co-starred. The movie was written by John Dighton and, fronting for Hollywood blacklist author Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter. (Trumbo's name was digitally restored to the film's credits when it was released on DVD in 2003.) Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (491x755, 89 KB) // Movie poster for the 1953 film Roman Holiday. ...
William Wyler (July 1, 1902–July 27, 1981) was a prolific, Oscar-winning motion picture director. ...
William Wyler (July 1, 1902–July 27, 1981) was a prolific, Oscar-winning motion picture director. ...
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, one of group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. ...
English screenwriter Ian McLellan Hunter (1915 - 1991) is best known for a film that he didn’t actually write. ...
John Dighton (1909 - 1989), was a successful British playwright and screenwriter. ...
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. ...
Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award-winning film and theatre actress, Broadway stage performer, former ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. ...
Eddie Albert, born Edward Albert Heimberger, (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005) was a popular Oscar and Emmy Award-nominated American stage, film, character actor, gardener and humanitarian activist, perhaps best known for playing Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films. ...
Georges Auric (February 15, 1899 – July 23, 1983) was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. ...
Victor Young (August 8, 1900 - November 10, 1956) was an Jewish-American composer, violinist and conducter. ...
Portrait of Henri Alekan The French cinematographer Henri Alekan was born on February 10th 1909 in Paris, France and died on June 15th 2001 in Auxerre, Bourgogne, France. ...
Film cinematographer Franz Planer (March 29, 1894 - January 10, 1963) was born in Karlsbad, Austria-Hungary (now called the Czech Republic). ...
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ...
August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ...
1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
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Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. ...
Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award-winning film and theatre actress, Broadway stage performer, former ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. ...
Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. ...
Eddie Albert, born Edward Albert Heimberger, (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005) was a popular Oscar and Emmy Award-nominated American stage, film, character actor, gardener and humanitarian activist, perhaps best known for playing Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films. ...
John Dighton (1909 - 1989), was a successful British playwright and screenwriter. ...
Protestors opposing the jailing of the Hollywood Ten in 1950 (from the 1987 documentary Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist). ...
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, one of group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. ...
English screenwriter Ian McLellan Hunter (1915 - 1991) is best known for a film that he didn’t actually write. ...
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Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Princess Ann (Hepburn) is the royal princess of an unspecified country. She is on a widely publicized tour of several European capitals, including Rome. One night, she rebels against the strenuous demands of her official duties, where every minute of her time is scheduled. Her doctor gives her a sedative in order to help her sleep, but she secretly leaves her country's embassy and goes out alone to experience Rome.
The injection eventually takes effect and she falls asleep on a public bench where Joe Bradley (Peck), an expatriate American reporter, meets her, but does not recognize her. He offers her money so that she can take a taxi home, but "Anya Smith", as she calls herself, refuses to disclose that is, saying that she should be taken to the Colosseum. Joe finally decides, for safety's sake, to let her spend the night in his apartment. He is amused by her regal manner, but less so when she appropriates his bed, leaving him an uncomfortable night on the couch. The next morning, unable to rouse her, he goes to work. The Colosseum by night: exterior view of the best-preserved section. ...
His editor, Mr Hennessy (Hartley Power), asks him if he had attended the scheduled press conference with the princess. Joe lies, making up details of the alleged interview until Hennessy tells him that the princess had suddenly "fallen ill" and the conference had been cancelled. Joe sees a picture of her and recognizes the young woman he had left sleeping in his apartment. Hennessy then threatens to fire him, and the two men end up making a bet that Joe can get an exclusive on the princess, which piques Hennessy's interest.
Joe is unconcerned about his sudden financial predicament because he realizes he is sitting on an exclusive story about his unexpected guest. He offers to show Rome to Anya, but not before getting his photographer friend, Irving Radovich (Eddie Albert), to go along to take pictures of Anya without her knowledge. Eddie Albert, born Edward Albert Heimberger, (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005) was a popular Oscar and Emmy Award-nominated American stage, film, character actor, gardener and humanitarian activist, perhaps best known for playing Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films. ...
They spend the day seeing the sights, including the "Mouth of Truth". On a whim, she gets her hair cut short in a barbershop facing the famous Trevi Fountain. She shares with Joe her dream of living a normal life without her (unspecified) responsibilities. That night, at a dance on a boat, government agents finally track her down and try to escort her away, but a wild melee breaks out and Joe and Anya escape. Through all this, they gradually fall in love. However, Anya realizes that it cannot be. She finally bids farewell to Joe, without revealing her true identity, and returns to the embassy. Trevi Fountain at night. ...
Joe, Irving and Ann in the final scene. During the course of the day, Hennessy's sources reveal that the princess is missing, not ill as the embassy had claimed. Hennessy suspects that Joe knows where she is, and excitedly tries to get him to admit it. Joe, however, claims to know nothing about it. He is willing to make the sacrifice for Anya. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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The next day, she appears at the delayed news conference, only to find Joe and Irving among the members of the press. Irving takes her picture with the same miniature cigarette lighter/camera he had used the previous day. He then presents her with the photographs he had taken that day, as a memento of her adventure, foregoing the money he could have made from their sale. Joe lets her know, by allusion, that her secret is safe with them. She, in turn, works into her bland press conference statements a coded message of love and gratitude to Joe. She then departs, leaving Joe to linger for a while, contemplating what could have been.
Spoilers end here.
Production
 Audrey Hepburn breaks character during a practical joke Gregory Peck plays during filming of the "Mouth of Truth" sequence. One of the most famous scenes in the movie is when Peck puts his hand into the "Mouth of Truth" (La Bocca della Verità), a stone face in Rome that legend says will bite your hand off if you tell a lie. In the film, when he pulls his hand out it is missing, causing Anya/Hepburn to scream. He then pops his hand out of his sleeve and laughs. Hepburn's shriek was not acting — Peck decided to pull a gag he had once seen Red Skelton do, and did not tell his co-star beforehand. (Source: An Evening with Gregory Peck, a series of retrospective lectures Peck gave in the years before his death, and Remembering Roman Holiday, a featurette on the 2002 DVD release.) Image File history File links Romanholidayhand. ...
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The Mouth of Truth La Bocca della Verità (Italian, the Mouth of Truth) is a river god that used to be a drain cover, but since the Middle ages, has served as a lie detector. ...
Richard Bernard Red Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American comedian whose greatest impact — in a career which began as a teen circus clown and graduated to vaudeville, Broadway, MGM films, and radio — began when he reached television stardom with The Red Skelton Show (NBC, 1951–1952...
Shortly after Princess Ann and Joe Bradley meet, she quotes him some poetry and insists it is by Keats. He insists it is by Shelley, and they have a bit of an argument. The quote is in fact from Mary Shelley's play Proserpine. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist, the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. ...
The movie was filmed in Rome, on location, and at Cinecittà Studios. Cinecittà (Italian for Cinema City) is a large film studio in Rome. ...
Cast - Gregory Peck as Joe Bradley. The role was originally written with Cary Grant in mind. However, Grant turned the role down, believing he was too old to play Hepburn's love interest. Later, the studio convinced Grant to play opposite Hepburn in Charade, where it became obvious that the chemistry between the two was as good as Grant had had with another Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn. However, Audrey Hepburn and Grant never appeared in another film together, although they became good friends and Grant considered her one of his favorite actresses to work with.
- Audrey Hepburn as Princess Ann ('Anya Smith'). A now-legendary screen test resulted in Hepburn being cast as Ann. After Hepburn performed a dignified, subdued scene from the film, the director called "cut", but the cameraman left the camera rolling, showing the young actress suddenly became animated as she chatted with the director. The candid footage won her the role; some of it was later included in the original theatrical trailer for the film, along with additional screen test footage showing Hepburn trying on some of Anya's costumes and even cutting her own hair (referring to a scene in the film where Anya gets a haircut). It is sometimes claimed that Roman Holiday was Hepburn's first American acting job. In fact, she appeared at least once on US television in 1952 — a CBS Television Workshop production of Rainy Day in Paradise Junction .
- Eddie Albert as Irving Radovich.
- Hartley Power as Mr. Hennessy, Bradley's editor.
- Harcourt Williams as the Ambassador of Princess Ann's country.
- Margaret Rawlings as Countess Vereberg, Ann's principal lady in waiting.
- Tullio Carminati as General Provno.
- Paolo Carlini as Mario Delani, the hairdresser who cuts Ann's hair.
- Claudio Ermelli as Giovanni, Bradley's landlord.
- Paola Borboni as Charwoman.
- Alfredo Rizzo as Cab driver.
- Laura Solari as Secretary.
- Gorella Gori as Shoe seller.
- Heinz Hindrich as Dr. Bonnachoven, Ann's doctor.
- John Horne as Master of Ceremonies.
- Andrea Esterhazy as Embassy staffer.
- Ugo De Pascale as Embassy staffer.
- Diane Lante as Lady in waiting.
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Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. ...
Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award-winning film and theatre actress, Broadway stage performer, former ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. ...
Eddie Albert, born Edward Albert Heimberger, (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005) was a popular Oscar and Emmy Award-nominated American stage, film, character actor, gardener and humanitarian activist, perhaps best known for playing Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films. ...
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. ...
Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was an English film actor. ...
Charade is a 1963 film written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, directed by Stanley Donen, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. ...
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an iconic four-time Academy Award-winning American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. ...
Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award-winning film and theatre actress, Broadway stage performer, former ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. ...
Screen Test was a British childrens quiz show produced by the BBC which ran from 1969 to 1984. ...
CBS Television Workshop was a 1952 television series most noted for an early appearance of Audrey Hepburn. ...
Eddie Albert, born Edward Albert Heimberger, (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005) was a popular Oscar and Emmy Award-nominated American stage, film, character actor, gardener and humanitarian activist, perhaps best known for playing Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films. ...
Harcourt Williams was a British actor who appeared in Henry V as King Charles. ...
Awards
Award wins In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to actresses, or female actors, working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award-winning film and theatre actress, Broadway stage performer, former ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. ...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...
The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...
New York Film Critics Circle Awards are given annually to honor excellence in cinema worldwide by an organization of film reviewers from New York City-based publications. ...
This Academy Award was first given for movies made in 1948 when separate awards were given for black-and-white and color movies. ...
Edith Head on the cover of the book The Life and Times of Edith Head by David Chierichetti Edith Head (October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who had a long career in Hollywood that garnered her more Academy Awards than any other woman in history. ...
The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ...
English screenwriter Ian McLellan Hunter (1915 - 1991) is best known for a film that he didn’t actually write. ...
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, one of group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. ...
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries in the United States. ...
John Dighton (1909 - 1989), was a successful British playwright and screenwriter. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
The Great Hall interior. ...
The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ...
Award nominations // The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards, awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which are voted on by others within the industry. ...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...
The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. ...
William Wyler (July 1, 1902–July 27, 1981) was a prolific, Oscar-winning motion picture director. ...
DGA Headquarters in Hollywood, California Directors Guild of America (DGA) is the labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry. ...
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
Eddie Albert, born Edward Albert Heimberger, (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005) was a popular Oscar and Emmy Award-nominated American stage, film, character actor, gardener and humanitarian activist, perhaps best known for playing Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films. ...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. ...
The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. ...
Hal Pereira was an American art director and production designer educated at the University of Illinois and brother of architect William L. Periera. ...
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for his work in one particular motion picture. ...
Film cinematographer Franz Planer (March 29, 1894 - January 10, 1963) was born in Karlsbad, Austria-Hungary (now called the Czech Republic). ...
Portrait of Henri Alekan The French cinematographer Henri Alekan was born on February 10th 1909 in Paris, France and died on June 15th 2001 in Auxerre, Bourgogne, France. ...
The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. ...
The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ...
English screenwriter Ian McLellan Hunter (1915 - 1991) is best known for a film that he didn’t actually write. ...
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, one of group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. ...
Miscellaneous
 Roman Holiday's DVD cover In the 1970s, both Peck and Hepburn were approached with the idea of a sequel to Roman Holiday which would have seen Anya and Joe reunite; the idea never came to fruition. The original film was remade for television in 1987 with Tom Conti and Catherine Oxenberg in the roles originally played by Peck and Hepburn. This is a DVD cover. ...
This is a DVD cover. ...
1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Tom Conti (born November 22, 1941) is a Scottish actor. ...
Main title caption from Dynasty. ...
The film is also known for its Vespa footage, much praised by classic scooter enthusiasts the world over.[citation needed] New Vespas Classic Vespas in Perth, Western Australia The Vespa is a line of motor scooters that was first manufactured in Pontedera, Italy in 1946 by Piaggio & Co, S.p. ...
See also Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area - City 1285 km² (580 sq mi) - Urban...
New Vespas Classic Vespas in Perth, Western Australia The Vespa is a line of motor scooters that was first manufactured in Pontedera, Italy in 1946 by Piaggio & Co, S.p. ...
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