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    Millionairess, The (1960)

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    Sophia Loren starred as the titular millionairess, Epifania Ognisanti di Parerga, whose husband-hunting is spoiled by a condition in her father’s will that any prospective husband must be able to turn £500 into £15,000 in three months.

    Peter Sellers co-starred as Dr Kabir, a penniless but saintly Indian GP who runs a humble East End clinic for the poor and whose mother insists that his future wife must be able to support herself for three months, starting with 35 shillings and the clothes she is wearing.

    Epifania succeeds, turning the sweatshop basement bakery owned by Joe (Vittorio De Sica) into a profit-making concern. Bewildered by money, Kabir fails without trying, offering the money to suspicious passers-by.

    She tries to buy him (with a lavishly-equipped welfare hospital built cheek-by-jowl alongside his surgery), seduce him and coerce him, but he resists organisation.

    Alastair Sim played Sagamore, the unscrupulous lawyer who appreciates the importance of keeping wealthy people happy, while Dennis Price played philandering psychiatrist Dr Adrian Bland.

    The film was based on the stage play by George Bernard Shaw with a screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz. Shaw meant it as an attack on capitalism and corrupting riches, but it works superbly here as a romantic comedy.

    Ten days after arriving in England to begin work on the film, burglars broke into the house Sophia Loren was renting in the grounds of the Edgwarebury Country Club near Elstree Studio and stole £180,000 of her jewellery. It was reported that some of the jewels later turned up in Cyprus.

    Epifania Ognisanti di Parerga
    Sophia Loren
    Doctor Kabir
    Peter Sellers
    Sagamore
    Alastair Sim
    Joe 
    Vittorio De Sica
    Doctor Adrian Bland
    Dennis Price
    Alastair
    Gary Raymond
    Fish Curer
    Alfie Bass
    Mrs Joe
    Miriam Karlin
    Professor
    Noel Purcell
    Polly
    Virginia Vernon
    Butler
    Graham Stark
    Nurse
    Diana Coupland
    Muriel
    Pauline Jameson
    Mrs Willoughby
    Eleanor Summerfield
    President
    Willoughby Goddard
    1st Secretary
    Basil Hoskins
    2nd Secretary
    Gordon Sterne
    Gloria
    Tempe Adam
    Whelk Seller
    Wally Patch
    Corelli
    Charles Hill

    Director
    Anthony Asquith

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