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Best Romance Films of 1956


Forever Darling

When Lucille Ball and ... tanked at the box office, but at least Desi Arnaz cultivated a hit song by recording the title tune. [ best romance films - 1956 ]

The Wide Blue Road

La Grande Strada Azzura ... as the heat is off. His final comeuppance both predictable and inevitable, but cleverly handled by director Gillo Ponteverco. [ best romance films - 1956 ]

The Rainmaker

N. Richard Nash's play ... the film is too old for their roles, but The Rainmaker makes up its shortcomings with sheer unbridled energy. [ best romance films - 1956 ]

Bus Stop

In this cinemadaptation of ... TV series. A few TV prints of Bus Stop still exist bearing the alternate title Wrong Kind of Girl. [ best romance films - 1956 ]

The King and I

The King and I, ... is Yul Brynner, in the role that made him a star and with which he will forever be identified. [ best romance films - 1956 ]

Naughty Girl

The title of this ... With You). The plot of Cette Sacree Gamine was later reworked for the 1965 Elvis Presley vehicle Girl Happy. [ best romance films - 1956 ]

Carousel

Carousel was adapted from ... she'll never walk alone. Frank Sinatra, the film's original Billy Bigelow, dropped out of the production due to laryngitis. [ best romance films - 1956 ]

D-Day, the Sixth of June

We don't see much ... film follows suit. 20th Century-Fox gives a far more thorough account of D-Day itself in 1963's The Longest Day. [ best romance films - 1956 ]

Girl in Black

Hot on the heels ... and implicit degeneracy all around them. To Koritsi me ta Mara was screened at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. [ best romance films - 1956 ]




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