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LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON

U.S., 1957
Directed by Billy Wilder
Starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
Approx. 130 min. 35mm.


Love blooms in Paris between aging roué Gary Cooper (as a Pepsi salesman: Wilder appeased Coke with ONE, TWO, THREE) and innocent cellist Audrey Hepburn. Wilder at his most Lubitsch-like, and the first of 12 perfect scripts co-written by I.A.L. Diamond.

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