Love in the Afternoon

Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the Claude Anet novel Ariane, jeune fille russe, which previously was filmed as Scampolo in 1928 and Scampolo, ein Kind der Strasse in 1932, the latter with a script co-written by Wilder. Beautiful young French cello student Ariane Chavasse, the daughter of private detective Claude Chavasse, ... more

Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the Claude Anet novel Ariane, jeune fille russe, which previously was filmed as Scampolo in 1928 and Scampolo, ein Kind der Strasse in 1932, the latter with a script co-written by Wilder. Beautiful young French cello student Ariane Chavasse, the daughter of private detective Claude Chavasse, is reading his case files and becomes intrigued by American business magnate Frank Flannagan, a playboy frequently trailed by Claude at the request of jealous husbands whose wives Frank is wooing. When Ariane discovers one of the cuckolded men, identified only as Monsieur X, plans to shoot Frank, she decides to warn him without revealing her identity. Frank is taken with the mysterious girl, who presents herself as a femme fatale, and she in turn begins to fall in love with the considerably older man. Complications ensue when Frank, determined... less