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24 January 1975 (Finland) morePlot:
In this comedy of manners, the American Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
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Cybill Shepherd Miscast as Daisy in a shallow version of James novella more (17 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Cybill Shepherd | ... | Annie P. 'Daisy' Miller | |
| Barry Brown | ... | Frederick Winterbourne | |
| Cloris Leachman | ... | Mrs. Ezra Miller | |
| Mildred Natwick | ... | Mrs. Costello | |
| Eileen Brennan | ... | Mrs. Walker | |
| Duilio Del Prete | ... | Mr. Gionavelli | |
| James McMurtry | ... | Randolph C. Miller | |
| Nicholas Jones | ... | Charles | |
| George Morfogen | ... | Eugenio | |
| Jean-Pascal Bongard | ... | Hotel Receptionist Vevey | |
| Albert Messmer | ... | Tutor | |
| Jacques Guhl | ... | Polish Boy | |
| Hubert Geoldun | ... | Polish Boy | |
| David Bush | ... | Man at Chillon | |
| Henri Hubinet | ... | Chillon Guide |
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Canada:PG (Ontario) | West Germany:12 (f) | South Korea:15 | Brazil:Livre | Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | USA:G | Singapore:PG | Argentina:AtpFun Stuff
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I agree with the reviewer who finds Ms. Shepherd utterly wrong for the part, and quite destroying the film. Henry James is a much more subtle portraitist of Americans abroad during that period than either actress or director could represent. For a start, someone so obnoxiously shallow as Shepherd's Daisy, and whose attempts at vivaciousness and flirtation so blatantly stagy, that the young hero must have been an absolute dill to have been so smitten. Nor is the actress so beautiful (or really young) as to make his sexual infatuation credible. Still it could have been worse, it could have been the worst "simperer" of all time, Mia Farrow cast in the role. That would have been a pill. However, possibly her special brand of naive vulnerability may have made Daisy more sympathetic. Thank good EVERYONE ELSE in the cast (apart from an uncharismatic and therefore unconvincing, Duilio del Prete as Gionavelli) is not only believable, but put in amazing performances, especially Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman, Mildred Natwick and Eileen Bannen, all perfect in their roles.
The theme of innocence destroyed by the social environment, not to mention evil schemers (as in Portrait of a Lady) or in this case, symbolically, the natural environment ("Roman Fever"), or even supernatural environment (as in Turn of the Screw) is a really central issue in many of James's novels and stories. To feel sympathy for the protagonist, she (as the protagonist often is) has to have not only innocence (which is misconstrued, exploited and/ or finally shattered), but also a kind of unshakable moral core. This could be as simple as a confident and self-possessed disregard of convention, or a genuine moral belief of the rightness of one's own actions. It is often represented as a subtle character trait.
Although these themes are indeed present in the film, Bogdanovich' simply fails to capture the quiet intensity of James's work.