CLASSIC MOVIES: ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)

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Brief Movie Synopsis [courtesy of The Internet Movie Database]:

A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians
and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
Nominated for ten Academy Awards,
winning three, including Best Actress.

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REVIEWS:

"Roman Holiday...is a contrived fable but a bittersweet legend
with laughs that leaves the spirits soaring. .... A viewer with a
long memory might recall some plot similarities between 'Roman Holiday'
and 'It Happened One Night'. .... Audrey Hepburn, the British
actress who is being starred for the first time as Princess Anne, is a
slender, elfin and wistful beauty, alternately regal and childlike in her
profound appreciation of newly-found, simple pleasures and love. ....
Gregory Peck makes a stalwart and manly escort and lover. .... It is a short
holiday in which they are involved but an entirely pleasureable one."

-- Excerpt from The New York Times; August 28, 1953