The 1953 film starring Gregory Peck and introducing Audrey Hepburn, the latter clinching the Academy Award for Best Actress in the same movie, is a romantic comedy centering on a single day's events in a princesses' life that she tried to spend as an ordinary holidaying tourist. Eddie Albert co-stars in this comedy and gives the perfect humorous relief to an already humourous but romantic chain of events.
Ann is a princess of an unnamed nation set on a tour of several European cities. Tired of the official duties to be performed one night she tries to break free from the princely duties and escapes outside in the dark city streets while at Rome one evening. Prior to this she was given a sedative to calm her nerves that takes effect very soon and she dozes off in a roadside bench only to be discovered by Joe Bradley, a reporter of an American newspaper stationed at Rome. Though initially Joe doesn't recognize her and reluctantly carries her home, but once he identifies her with her published picture at the papers he immediately smells a scoop and devises a plan of hitting up with an exclusive interview for his paper. For this he takes help of his photographer friend Irving Radovich and together they accompany her Royal Highness on a guided tour of the city street without disclosing their professions to Ann. But news of the missing princess reaches her kingdom from where secret agents were deployed and they spot her on a public ball with Bradley. A brawl breaks up and Bradley and Ann makes a narrow escape and suddenly they find that they have developed feelings for each other. Now it remains to seen whether the call of duty for the princess can pursuade her to return to the embassy or whether she lets herself be carried away by her emotions. Also for Bradley, he is held in a dilemma between publishing of the scandalous story and keeping the faith intact between him and the princess.
A superb storyline, later used in several other films, and a wonderful casting has made this movie an all time hit.
Ann is a princess of an unnamed nation set on a tour of several European cities. Tired of the official duties to be performed one night she tries to break free from the princely duties and escapes outside in the dark city streets while at Rome one evening. Prior to this she was given a sedative to calm her nerves that takes effect very soon and she dozes off in a roadside bench only to be discovered by Joe Bradley, a reporter of an American newspaper stationed at Rome. Though initially Joe doesn't recognize her and reluctantly carries her home, but once he identifies her with her published picture at the papers he immediately smells a scoop and devises a plan of hitting up with an exclusive interview for his paper. For this he takes help of his photographer friend Irving Radovich and together they accompany her Royal Highness on a guided tour of the city street without disclosing their professions to Ann. But news of the missing princess reaches her kingdom from where secret agents were deployed and they spot her on a public ball with Bradley. A brawl breaks up and Bradley and Ann makes a narrow escape and suddenly they find that they have developed feelings for each other. Now it remains to seen whether the call of duty for the princess can pursuade her to return to the embassy or whether she lets herself be carried away by her emotions. Also for Bradley, he is held in a dilemma between publishing of the scandalous story and keeping the faith intact between him and the princess.
A superb storyline, later used in several other films, and a wonderful casting has made this movie an all time hit.
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