Love with the Proper Stranger
- Natalie Wood: Angie
- Steve McQueen: Rocky
- Edie Adams: Barbie
- Tom Bosley: Colombo
- Herschel Bernardi: Dominick
- Harvey Lembeck: Julio
- Penny Santon: Angie's mother
In love with a stranger is an American film drama from 1963, the Richard Mulligan directed for Paramount Pictures.
Action
The musician Rocky spends a night with Angie in a hotel. After she told him that she was pregnant, she asks him to recommend a doctor to you. Rocky looking for his girlfriend Barbie, a stripper, which throws him out of the apartment.
Angie's brothers Dominick and Julio and their mother know nothing of her pregnancy. You want to marry Angie with the shy restaurant owners Colombo, which is like Angie Italian origin. Rocky has become clear that Angie needs a doctor to have an abortion can. He is trying to raise the necessary money. He takes Angie to his unsuspecting parents, Angie immediately close to the heart.
Shortly before the scheduled abortion will Rocky not that undergoes Angie this procedure. While Angie loves Rocky, but she realizes that Rocky before a marriage is afraid. She decides Colombo's marriage proposal to accept, especially since he has assured her to pretend in public that Angie expecting his child. A possible reunion with Rocky ends in an argument. Later, Angie sees him holding a sign that says, "Better dead than married " (English Better Than Dead Wed ).
Background
The film celebrated its premiere on December 25, 1963. In Germany it was released in theaters on April 7, 1964.
Small, not mentioned in the credits, supporting roles played Val Avery, Richard S. Castellano, Richard Dysart, Dyanne Thorne and Richard Mulligan, the younger brother of the director. For Tom Bosley, the film was his debut as an actor.
The theme song was composed by Johnny Mercer and Elmer Bernstein and sung by Jack Jones.
Reviews
The lexicon of the International film wrote the partly serious, partly humorous staged film tell its certainly not very original story with an unusual love for the subject and to detail.
The film magazine Cinema described the film as a moving, funny and thanks to the Stars still fresh.
Bosley Crowther was from the New York Times, the film is entertaining, but in terms of the romance powerless.
Awards
- Profit 1964: Award for Best Actress Natalie Wood at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata
- 1964: 2nd place at the award ceremony of the Laurel Awards of Natalie Wood for the Top Female Dramatic Performance