Adorable Julia

Julia, you're enchanting is a film directed by Alfred Weidenmann from 1962 based on the novel Theatre by William Somerset Maugham. The film was shot on 18 September 1961 to December 5, 1961 in London. Premiere was on 10 August 1962.

Action

Julia ( Lilli Palmer ) is a still very successful, albeit somewhat somewhat dated actress at a London theater. Your director and husband (Charles Boyer ) is devoted to her, but has become a little unattractive the relationship. Julia considering adding a family friend, Lord Charles T. (Charles Regnier ) seduce, it can then be but still. The young tax consultant of the theater, Tom (Jean Sorel ) falls in love with the diva and makes love to her - and she embarks on an amour fou. Tom is poor and Julia takes him under his arms, but just this patronage can the feelings of Tom, who is only slightly older than the way Julia's son Roger ( Thomas Fritsch ) cool and he flirts with a young actress of the same theater at. Julia is not ready to have a demonstration of a younger woman, neither on stage nor in their love lives. So she gives her lover not quite light-hearted first jilted in order to save face, and at the premiere of the next piece she plays the young actress mercilessly against the wall. Extremely gratified by this success, she goes incognito in a restaurant to indulge in a normally illicit pleasure, a sumptuous meal they acknowledged with the words: " What is love against a beefsteak with fried potatoes !" She is recognized by her husband who not only forgives her caprices her, but she also fed back to the path of virtue, or at least in the bosom of the family back.

Reviews

" A somewhat dated Diva begins a love affair with a young man, until it finally comes to his senses. Brilliant staged entertainment film from a story by Somerset Maugham. "

" Elegant, crossed by faint irony entertainment theater to Somerset Maugham; excellent game, with here and there witty dialogue. "

, As aptly transferred "Treff end social criticism by the English writer Maugham into Cinematic. However, only for judging safe adults. "

Remake

2004 was directed by István Szabó entitled Being Julia another film adaptation of the novel by Somerset Maugham. In the role of Julia Szabo occupied Annette Bening.

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France 1962 in film Screenplay Film score Werner Krien Charles Régnier Canaris (Film) Der Stern von Afrika Scampolo Sacred Waters (1960 film) Who Wants to Sleep?
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