The Girl Who Couldn't Say No Explained

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
Director:	Franco Brusati
Starring:	Virna Lisi George Segal Lila Kedrova Paola Pitagora Akim Tamiroff
Music:	Riz Ortolani
Cinematography:	Ennio Guarnieri
Editing:	Franco Arcalli
Country:	Italy

Tenderly (internationally released as The Girl Who Couldn't Say No, also known as Il suo modo di fare) is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Franco Brusati.^[1] It was referred as "a successful attempt to refresh the American sophisticated comedy with themes and sensibilities of today"^[2] and its style was compared to Frank Capra's.^{[2] [3]}

Plot

After fifteen years apart, a young, motivated surgeon named Franco (Segal) runs into his childhood friend Yolanda (Lisi) in Rome. They fall in love and travel to Florence together, but Yolanda's unpredictable, often unusual personality makes the future of their relationship highly uncertain.^[4]

Cast

• Virna Lisi : Yolanda
• George Segal : Franco
• Lila Kedrova : Yolanda's Mother
• Akim Tamiroff : Uncle Egidio
• Paola Pitagora : Widow
• Mario Brega : Cripple
• Riccardo Billi : Salesman
• Anne Cumming : Franco's mother^[5]

Production

It was known during shooting as Runaround.^[6]

Notes and References

1. News: Kevin Thomas. 'Girl Couldn't Say No' Playing Citywide Run. Los Angeles Times. March 27, 1970.
2. Book: Enrico Giacovelli. Un secolo di cinema italiano, 1900-1999: Dalle origini agli anni Sessanta. Lindau, 2002. 8871804120.
3. Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, B & N, Volume 30, Società Gestione Editoriali, 1969.
4. https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/76399/The-Girl-Who-Couldn-t-Say-No/ Turner Classic Movies plot overview
5. Richard Davenport-Hines, ‘Cumming, (Felicity) Anne (1917–1993)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 accessed 11 April 2017
6. Strike Halts George Segal MovieDorothy Manners:. The Washington Post and Times-Herald 16 Mar 1968: D10.