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Lady L movie storyline. Today Lady Louise Lendale (Sophia Loren) is eighty-years-old and she tells her long time admirer, British poet Sir Percy (Cecil Parker), all about her eventful life. In the beginning, she was a young laundress working in “Le Mouton Bleu”, a renowned Paris whorehouse. There, she met Armand (Paul Newman), both a charming man and a bomb-throwing anarchist, and it wasn’t long before she became his mistress.
One day, while Armand was away in Switzeland, working for a revolutionary movement aiming to murder a Russian Prince, Louise met the second man in her life, a British Lord she soon called Dicky (David Niven). The latter offered to marry her. In exchange, he would save Armand from the police’s grip. She accepted on the condition she could still see Armand.
Lady L is a 1965 comedy film based on the novel by Romain Gary and directed by Peter Ustinov. Starring Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven and Cecil Parker, the film focuses on an elderly Corsican lady as she recalls the loves of her life, including an anarchist and a Parisian aristocrat. The film had its World Premiere at the Empire, Leicester Square in the West End of London on November 25, 1965.
Lady L (1965)
Directed by: Peter Ustinov
Starring: Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven, Marcel Dalio, Cecil Parker, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Dufilho Dufilho, Eugene Deckers, Daniel Emilfork, Hella Petri, Jean Wiener, Roger Trapp, Jean Rupert, Joe Dassin, Jacques Legras
Screenplay by: Peter Ustinov
Production Design by: René Fargeas, Pierre Laurent
Cinematography by: Henri Alekan
Film Editing by: Roger Dwyre
Costume Design by: Marcel Escoffier, Jacqueline Guyot
Music by: Jean Françaix
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date: November 25, 1965
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