A Breath of Scandal (1960) - SFdb

Table of contents

Basic facts
Links and resources
Titles
Crew
Cast
Companies

About the film
Plot summary
Swedish censorship / rating
Technical specifications
Comments
Original work

Production location
Release dates
Soundtrack listing
Awards
Related films
Subjects

Holdings Film
Holdings Posters
Holdings Archive materials
Holdings Scripts
Holdings Stills
Holdings Promotion materials

Other manifestations of this work

Basic facts

Original title	A Breath of Scandal
Film type	Feature
Category	Fiction
Director	Michael Curtiz
Producer	Carlo Ponti Marcello Girosi
Screenplay	Walter Bernstein
Original work	Olimpia (Play) Olympia (Play)
Production country	USA Italy
Production company	Paramount Pictures Corporation Ponti-Girosi Productions
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Dialogue	English
Swedish release	1961-04-14

Cast

Sophia Loren
prinsessan Olympia

Maurice Chevalier
prins Philip

John Gavin
Charles Foster

Angela Lansbury
grevinnan Lina Schwatzenfeld

Isabel Jeans
prinsessan Eugénie

Tullio Carminati
Albert

Titles

Original title	A Breath of Scandal
Swedish release title	Skandal i Wien
Co-production title	Olympia
Script title	Love Me Tonight Lady in Waiting

Crew

Director	Michael Curtiz
Screenplay	Walter Bernstein (ej krediterad)
Producer	Carlo Ponti Marcello Girosi
Production Manager	William Mull (ej krediterad)
Director of Photography	Mario Montuori
Music	Alessandro Cicognini
Production Designer	Hal Pereira Gene Allen (as Eugene Allen)
Film Editor	Howard Smith
Production Mixer	Kurt Schwarz (as Kurt Schwartz)
Assistant Director	Mario Russo
Technical Advisor	Hoyningen Huene (as Hoyningen-Huene) (färgkoordinator)
Dialogue Coach	Helen Goss
Associate Producer	Gene Allen (as Eugene Allen)
Costume Designer	Hoyningen Huene (as Hoyningen-Huene)
Make-up Supervisor	Giuseppe Annunziata
Hair Stylist	Maria Angelini

Cast

Sophia Loren	prinsessan Olympia
Maurice Chevalier	prins Philip
John Gavin	Charles Foster
Angela Lansbury	grevinnan Lina Schwatzenfeld
Isabel Jeans	prinsessan Eugénie
Tullio Carminati	Albert
Milly Vitale	Yvette, cancanflicka
Carlo Hinterman	prins Ruprecht
Roberto Risso	Henri, Philips adjutant
Frederick Ledebur (as Frederick von Ledebur)	greve Sandor
Adrienne Gessner	Amelia
Luigi Cimara
Waveney Lee
Walter Varndal

Companies

Production Company	Paramount Pictures Corporation
	Ponti-Girosi Productions
Copyright	Paramount Pictures Corporation	1960-11-02	(LP17481)
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	Film AB Paramount	1961
Distributor in Sweden (DVD)	Paramount Home Entertainment (Sweden) AB	2006

Swedish censorship / rating

Censorship number	97151
Date	1961-02-09
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	2670 meters
Notes	Aktlängder: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.

Technical specifications

Aspect ratio	1.85:1
Sound type	Sound
Sound system	Westrex Sound Recording
Colour type	Colour
Colour system	Technicolor
Carrier type	35 mm
Frames per second	24
Length in metres	2676 meter
Length in minutes	98 min
Reels	10 reels

Original work

Original title	Olimpia (Play)
Author	Ferenc Molnár

Original title	Olympia (Play)
Adaptation	Sidney Howard
Translator	Sidney Howard

Production location

1959-06

1959-07

Release dates

First showing	1960-04-12		Hamburg	West Germany	98 min
Other showing	1960-12-16		New York City, New York	USA	98 min	(Amerikansk premiär)
Release in Sweden	1961-04-14	Röda Kvarn	Stockholm	Sweden	98 min
DVD release	2006-12-06			Sweden

Holdings Posters

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity	2

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2

Holdings Stills

Black and white print	SET
Colour prints	10
Album	No

Holdings Promotion materials

Type	Program/Reklamtryck

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