I'm rather shocked how unavailable and unseen this movie is. Marty's Delbert Mann & Paddy Chayefsky team up again to present a story of a relationship of a 56-year-old widower and 24-year-old divorcee. Unlike most classic Hollywood portrayals of older men dating younger women (e.g. many Audrey Hepburn movies), this movie offers surprisingly frank discussions of this type of age-gap relationship with well-realized and thoughtful characters, portrayed excellently by Fredric March & Kim Novak. It's honestly impressive that this came out in 1959, but of course Paddy Chayefsky was always ahead of the curb. Catch it on TCM sometime, it's pretty much the only way to watch it.
I'm rather shocked how unavailable and unseen this movie is. Marty's Delbert Mann & Paddy Chayefsky team up again to present a story of a relationship of a 56-year-old widower and 24-year-old divorcee. Unlike most classic Hollywood portrayals of older men dating younger women (e.g. many Audrey Hepburn movies), this movie offers surprisingly frank discussions of this type of age-gap relationship with well-realized and thoughtful characters, portrayed excellently by Fredric March & Kim Novak. It's honestly impressive that this came out in 1959, but of course Paddy Chayefsky was always ahead of the curb. Catch it on TCM sometime, it's pretty much the only way to watch it.
