CATEGORY: PHOTOGRAPHS
A nude Sophia Loren (1934 Rome, Italy) hiding behind the bathroom door.
Gelatin silver print. Movie: Houseboat • 1958
Creator:
Melville Shavelson (1917-2007), film director
Object:
Sophia Loren, photograph, gelatin silver print
Country:
U.S.A.
Design period:
1958
Production period:
1958
Identifying marks:
Dated and titled on recto
Style:
Portraits, art
Condition:
Near fine (9). Small fold on top left and some negative-based spots
Material:
Gelatin silver print on baryta photographic paper
Colour:
Black & White
Dimensions:
Image W 20.8 x H 25.4 cm | paper W 21.5 x H 29.0 cm
Plot
Houseboat is a 1958 American romantic comedy film with Cary Grant and Sophia Loren. For over three years, Tom Winters (Cary Grant), a lawyer working for the US State Department, has been separated from his wife and three children: David (Paul Petersen), Elizabeth (Mimi Gibson), and Robert (Charles Herbert). The film begins as he returns home to Washington from Europe following his wife's death. The children want to stay in the countryside with their mother's wealthy parents and her sister Carolyn (Martha Hyer), but instead Tom takes them with him to live in Washington, D.C. One evening, they attend an outdoor concert; but after it ends, Robert separates himself from the family and disappears. He later shows up in a small rowboat with an Italian girl, Cinzia Zaccardi (Sophia Loren), who seeks to experience America up close and personal. They land at a nearby carnival, where they eat pizza, dance, and "win" a harmonica. Later, she brings Robert home to a worried Tom. The next day, he hires her as maid to care for the children while he is away.
What follows are a series of misadventures as Tom attempts to move Cinzia and the kids away from Washington to a house in the country but wind up the inhabitants of a leaky, rotting houseboat. However. a complete renovation of the premises proves successful, and their floating new home becomes the backdrop for various episodes where Tom is finally able to win over his children—not to mention Cinzia, who is unable to cook, do laundry, or even make coffee. Winters' sister-in-law, Carolyn, suspects Cinzia's relationship with Tom is not entirely platonic. So does Tom's military aide, Captain Wilson (Murray Hamilton), who while somewhat drunk, rudely jokes about Cinzia's living arrangement with Winters. In the end, though, all misunderstandings are explained and Tom Winters finally marries his maid, as the children look on approvingly.
A nude Sophia Loren (1934 Rome, Italy) hiding behind the bathroom door.
Gelatin silver print. Movie: Houseboat • 1958
Creator:
Melville Shavelson (1917-2007), film director
Object:
Sophia Loren, photograph, gelatin silver print
Country:
U.S.A.
Design period:
1958
Production period:
1958
Identifying marks:
Dated and titled on recto
Style:
Portraits, art
Condition:
Near fine (9). Small fold on top left and some negative-based spots
Material:
Gelatin silver print on baryta photographic paper
Colour:
Black & White
Dimensions:
Image W 20.8 x H 25.4 cm | paper W 21.5 x H 29.0 cm
Plot
Houseboat is a 1958 American romantic comedy film with Cary Grant and Sophia Loren. For over three years, Tom Winters (Cary Grant), a lawyer working for the US State Department, has been separated from his wife and three children: David (Paul Petersen), Elizabeth (Mimi Gibson), and Robert (Charles Herbert). The film begins as he returns home to Washington from Europe following his wife's death. The children want to stay in the countryside with their mother's wealthy parents and her sister Carolyn (Martha Hyer), but instead Tom takes them with him to live in Washington, D.C. One evening, they attend an outdoor concert; but after it ends, Robert separates himself from the family and disappears. He later shows up in a small rowboat with an Italian girl, Cinzia Zaccardi (Sophia Loren), who seeks to experience America up close and personal. They land at a nearby carnival, where they eat pizza, dance, and "win" a harmonica. Later, she brings Robert home to a worried Tom. The next day, he hires her as maid to care for the children while he is away.
What follows are a series of misadventures as Tom attempts to move Cinzia and the kids away from Washington to a house in the country but wind up the inhabitants of a leaky, rotting houseboat. However. a complete renovation of the premises proves successful, and their floating new home becomes the backdrop for various episodes where Tom is finally able to win over his children—not to mention Cinzia, who is unable to cook, do laundry, or even make coffee. Winters' sister-in-law, Carolyn, suspects Cinzia's relationship with Tom is not entirely platonic. So does Tom's military aide, Captain Wilson (Murray Hamilton), who while somewhat drunk, rudely jokes about Cinzia's living arrangement with Winters. In the end, though, all misunderstandings are explained and Tom Winters finally marries his maid, as the children look on approvingly.
