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A New Kind of Love ()


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The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression that Samantha Blake is a high-priced call girl. Steve Sherman is the journalist interviewing her for insights on her profession.

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Steve Sherman
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Samantha Blake
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Lena O'Connor
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Felicienne Courbeau
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Joe Bergner
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Harry
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Frenchman at Restaurant
Jan Moriarty ...
Suzanne
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Danish Stewardess
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Bertram Chalmers
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Self
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Singer of Title Song - Opening Credits (voice)
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Onlooker (uncredited)
Jean Argyle ...
Shopper (uncredited)
Kay Armour ...
Shopper (uncredited)
Danielle Aubry ...
Danielle (uncredited)
Audrey Betz ...
Amazon (uncredited)
Eugene Borden ...
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Peter Canon ...
Peter Canon (uncredited)
Virginia Carr ...
Shopper (uncredited)
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Gendarme (uncredited)
Sue Casey ...
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Winnie Chandler ...
Shopper (uncredited)
Irene Chapman ...
Amazon (uncredited)
Kay Christian ...
Model with Pearls (uncredited)
Suzanne Dadolle ...
French Columnist (uncredited)
Keith Dahle ...
Shopper (uncredited)
Allison Daniell ...
Lingerie Model (uncredited)
Sandra Downs ...
Stewardess (uncredited)
Leno Jo Francen ...
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Gabrielle ...
Model (uncredited)
Judy Garwood ...
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French Waiter (uncredited)
Patricia Howard ...
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Emily LaRue ...
Shopper (uncredited)
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Floorwalker (uncredited)
Helen Marler ...
Cardin Model (uncredited)
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Café Headwaiter (uncredited)
Jacqueline May ...
French Waitress (uncredited)
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Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Paul Micale ...
Shopper (uncredited)
Marylu Miner ...
Model (uncredited)
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Parisienne Poule (uncredited)
George Nardelli ...
Waiter (uncredited)
Patricia Olson ...
Second French Girl (uncredited)
Allyn Parsons ...
Model (uncredited)
Vicki Poure ...
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Francis Ravel ...
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Gene Ringgold ...
Reporter (uncredited)
Gladys Roach ...
Shopper (uncredited)
Anne Ross ...
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Vernon Scott ...
Reporter (uncredited)
Mildred Shelton ...
Shopper (uncredited)
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Amazon (uncredited)
Mabel Smaney ...
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Jimmy Starr ...
Reporter (uncredited)
Lomax Study ...
Hansom Cab Driver (uncredited)
Audrey Swanson ...
Shopper (uncredited)
Sondra Teke ...
Model (uncredited)
Annabelle Thiele ...
Model (uncredited)
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Mrs. Hannah Chalmers (uncredited)
Joan Waddell ...
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Trude Wyler ...
Midinette (uncredited)
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Directed by

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Melville Shavelson

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Melville Shavelson ... producer

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Erroll Garner
Leith Stevens

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Daniel L. Fapp ... director of photography

Editing by

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Frank Bracht

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George Hoyningen-Huene ... color coordinator (as Hoyningen-Huene)
Richard Mueller ... color consultant: Technicolor

Art Direction by

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Arthur Lonergan
Hal Pereira

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Sam Comer
James W. Payne ... (as James Payne)

Costume Design by

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Edith Head

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Nellie Manley ... hair style supervisor
George Masters ... hair style designer: Joanne Woodward
Wally Westmore ... makeup supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Arthur Jacobson ... assistant director
Michael D. Moore ... assistant director: Paris unit

Art Department

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Gene Lauritzen ... construction coordinator (uncredited)

Sound Department

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John R. Carter ... sound recordist (as John Carter)
John Wilkinson ... sound recordist

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Farciot Edouart ... process photography
Paul K. Lerpae ... special photographic effects

Camera and Electrical Department

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Loyal Griggs ... director of photography: second unit

Music Department

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Leith Stevens ... arranger (uncredited) / orchestrator (uncredited)
Van Cleave ... orchestrator (uncredited)

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George Hoyningen-Huene ... title designer (as Hoyningen-Huene)
Hal C. Kern ... assistant to producer
Miriam Nelson ... choreographer
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Plot Summary

Having once played and lost in love, twenty-five year old Samantha Blake has immersed herself in her job as the chief ladies fashions buyer for discount J. Bergner's Fifth Avenue in New York. In other words, she scowls the high end shops at night stealing their designs which Bergner then produces and sells for a fraction of the cost. She has placed as much space between herself and romance by dressing like a man and going by the moniker Sam. Steve Sherman could be a great journalist, but his womanizing always seems to get in the way. Steve and Sam meet on the same New York to Paris flight, Sam who is travelling there with her boss Joe Bergner and her wisecracking colleague Lena O'Connor, who is secretly in love with Joe, to visit the Paris design houses under the guidance of vivacious Felicienne Corbeau, while Steve has been exiled there by his boss, International Press chief Bertram Chalmers, as Steve's iron-clad contract won't allow Chalmers to fire him until the expiry of that contract, Chalmer's hope being that Steve kills himself among the bevy of French beauties in the process. Sam and Steve immediately butt heads being the antithesis of each other when it comes to love and romance. Lena has her own romance problems as she can see that she will have to fight Felicienne for Joe, which is made all the more difficult in Felicienne being a truly nice woman. But being in the city of love opens Sam's eyes to the fact that she really wants love in her life. Making herself over to an extreme, she meets Steve, who out of circumstance doesn't recognize her as Sam and who believes she is a prostitute named Mimi. Steve's initial interest in Mimi is purely as a source for stories, he using her background to equate the French view of love and sex with sport. But as they spend more time together, they begin to fall for each other, the question then being if they can love each other as plain old Steve and Samantha. Written by Huggo

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Taglines THE PICTURE THAT TAKES A NEW ATTITUDE ON LOVE! See more »
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Also Known As
  • La Fille à la casquette (France)
  • Samantha (Spain)
  • Samanta (Chile)
  • Ingen erotikk, takk! (Norway)
  • Nytt sätt att älska (Sweden)
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  • 110 min
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Trivia When his editor tells him he's being reassigned to Paris, "where you'll probably die," Newman replies, "Yeah, but what a wonderful way to go." The line turned out to be prophetic - the very next year, Newman played an American living in Paris in What a Way to Go! (1964). See more »
Goofs Maurice Chevalier gives a party hat to Felicienne, who puts it on twice. See more »
Movie Connections Referenced in Down with Love (2003). See more »
Soundtracks You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me See more »
Crazy Credits Paris originals designed, executed, and pirated from... See more »
Quotes Samantha Blake: I don't want to be a semi-maiden forever.
Steve Sherman: What the hell is that?
Samantha Blake: It's worse than nothing at all. It's like eating one peanut.
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