It Started in Naples 1960

It Started in Naples 1960

It Started in Naples is a 1960 American romantic comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson and produced by Jack Rose from a screenplay by Suso Cecchi d’Amico, based on the story by Michael Pertwee and Jack Davies

  

 The Technicolor cinematography was directed by Robert Surtees. The film stars Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica and an Italian cast

This was Gable’s final film to be released within his lifetime and his last film in color

Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer and Arrigo Breschi were nominated for an Oscar for its art direction

The film was released by Paramount Pictures on August 7, 1960

1960) Uptight Philly lawyer Clark Gable, in Italy to team up with roving-eyed Vittorio de Sica to settle his black sheep brother’s estate, finds he’s an uncle. And illegitimate Marietto is now an impish street kid looked after by his night club thrush aunt Sophia Loren

With dazzling scenery – Italy’s and Loren’s – and her classic song “You Want to be Americano.” 

35mm Technicolor print courtesy UCLA Film & Television Archive. Approx. 100 min

It Started in Naples (1960)

It Started in Naples (1960)