An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome--but married--Italian man while vacationing in Venice.An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome--but married--Italian man while vacationing in Venice.An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome--but married--Italian man while vacationing in Venice.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 2 wins & 5 nominations total
David Lean
- Man at Café
- (unconfirmed)
- (uncredited)
Tanya Lopert
- Teenage Girl
- (uncredited)
André Morell
- Englishman
- (uncredited)
Angelo Puppin
- Man that falls into canal
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaKatharine Hepburn was more than impressed with her experience working with director Sir David Lean. She even asked to sit in on the editing sessions with him to watch him at work. In her autobiography, she wrote, "(Summertime) was told with great simplicity in the streets, in the Piazza San Marco. We would shoot in tiny streets only a few feet wide. The sun would come and go in a matter of minutes. It was a very emotional part, and I tell you I had to be on my toes to give David enough of what he wanted practically on call. But it was thrilling... He seemed to me to simply absorb Venice. It was his. He had a real photographic gift. He thought in a descriptive way. His shots tell the story. He was capable of a sort of super concentration. It made a very deep and definite impression on me, and he was one of the most interesting directors I ever worked with. Wasn't I lucky to work with him?"
- GoofsWhen Jane first enters her hotel room; there is a scenic shot of the lagoon including a ship and a motor boat passing a Cathedral. However in the close-up shot of Jane along with the lagoon; there are now no boats or ships on the water.
- Quotes
Renato de Rossi: You are like a hungry child who is given ravioli to eat. 'No' you say, 'I want beefsteak!' My dear girl, you are hungry. Eat the ravioli.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are shown over various paintings, where the subjects are European scenes.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963)
- SoundtracksSummertime In Venice
(uncredited)
English lyric by Carl Sigman
Italian Lyric by Pinchi
Music by Icini
Published by MCA Music, New York, NY
Featured review
The Venice of "Summertime," in the Piazza San Marco, is indeed unique
Jane Hudson (Katherine Hepburn), a middle-aged American school teacher, arrives in Venice, fulfilling a lifelong dream
On her first evening, she has an encounter with Mauro, an enterprising little street child, who becomes her unofficial escort
But in the evening, while seating in a crowded café, she sees a handsome man in a gray flannel suit... Her first instinctive reaction was to oppose, pay the bill, escape, and keep out of sight...
The next evening, she sits alone to take a drink in the Piazza San Marco, but with a wandering eye As the violins begin playing 'Summertime in Venice', Jane would turn away in a heart beat to see Renato passing by To hide her anxiousness, she inclines the chair next to her, pretending that she is expecting a company... Jane has come to Venice to find a handsome, unmarried hero of her dreams... But she is furious and resentful... She really can't understand what she is doing...
The most advantageous thing about David Lean's 'Summertime' is its sensitive portrait of the loneliness that holds back the fancy secretary, a desperately single heroine whose search for romance and adventure is prevented less by cultural differences than by her own feeling defenses...
Hepburn is a pleasant tourist with great magnetism... Rossano Brazzi is too powerful, tempting and charming as Renato, the Venetian who couldn't catch a fallen white gardenia in one of the canals of his town
The next evening, she sits alone to take a drink in the Piazza San Marco, but with a wandering eye As the violins begin playing 'Summertime in Venice', Jane would turn away in a heart beat to see Renato passing by To hide her anxiousness, she inclines the chair next to her, pretending that she is expecting a company... Jane has come to Venice to find a handsome, unmarried hero of her dreams... But she is furious and resentful... She really can't understand what she is doing...
The most advantageous thing about David Lean's 'Summertime' is its sensitive portrait of the loneliness that holds back the fancy secretary, a desperately single heroine whose search for romance and adventure is prevented less by cultural differences than by her own feeling defenses...
Hepburn is a pleasant tourist with great magnetism... Rossano Brazzi is too powerful, tempting and charming as Renato, the Venetian who couldn't catch a fallen white gardenia in one of the canals of his town
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- David Lean's Production of Summertime
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- Campo San Barnaba, Venice, Veneto, Italy(Renato's shop; Jane falls in water)
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- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1(original ratio)
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