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Daisy Miller

1974, Movie, G, 90 mins

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Daisy Miller as a book is a good read, but the film by Bogdanovich is truly a dud in spite of handsome sets and an intelligent writing job. James is, to say the least, hard to adapt for the screen, but this job becomes hopeless because of Shepherd's shallow performance as a woman who flirts all over Europe in the late 19th century and finally dies of malaria. The 23-year-old actor Brown also wrote on film. Four years after the release of DAISY MILLER, he was dead, a suicide.... read more leave a comment
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At a Swiss spa, upper-class expatriate American Frederick Winterbourne (Barry Brown) meets pretty, nouveau riche flirt Daisy Miller (Cybill Shepherd); her bratty, xenophobic little brother Randolph (James McMurtry); and her tremulous, nattering mother (Cloris Leachman). Despite warnings from his dowager aunt (Mildred Natwick) about Daisy's recklessness with men, Winterbourne finds himself drawn to her. When he encounters her again in Rome, he tries to convince her that her liberated behavior with an Italian admirer (Duilio Del Prete) may sully her reputation in aristocratic circles. But Winterbourne cannot reconcile his own feelings for Daisy with the manners that he is used to following, nor can he fathom how she may feel about him beneath her veneer of willful coquetry. After society matron Mrs. Walker (Eileen Brennan) ostracizes her, Daisy's final rash action reveals to Winterbourne how his old-fashioned mores may have sealed her fate. With a screenplay by Frederic Raphael and locat
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Length: 01:31:24
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In this comedy of manners, the American Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.
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Length: 01:32:00
Posted: 5/5/2008
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Year: 1974
Rated G

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Cast
Cybill Shepherd: Annie P."Daisy" Miller
Barry Brown: Frederick Winterbourne
Cloris Leachman: Mrs. Ezra B. Miller
Mildred Natwick: Mrs. Costello
Eileen Brennan: Mrs. Walker
Duilio Del Prete: Giovanelli

 

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