Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paolo to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.
Vivien Leigh
as Karen Stone
Warren Beatty
as Paolo di Leo
Lotte Lenya
as Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
Coral Browne
as Meg
Jill St. John
as Barbara Bingham
Ernest Thesiger
as Stefano
Jeremy Spenser
as Young Man
Stella Bonheur
as Mrs. Jamison-Walker
Bessie Love
as Bunny
Josephine Brown
as Lucia
Peter Dyneley
as Lloyd Greener
Carl Jaffe
as Baron Waldheim
