Summertime, the 1955 movie set in Venice, pairs "spinster" * Jane Hudson (played by the inimitable Katherine Hepburn, age 48 at the time this film was made) and handsome Renato de Rossi (Rossano Brazzi). I was on the phone last week several times, trying to work out a points purchase for a ticket to Venice in June. This movie was recommended to me by one of the travel agents, Bill in Los Angeles, who has been to Venice many times. So glad to have watched it - beautiful shots of Venice. And of course, there's Katherine Hepburn. At one point in the movie, another woman remarks to Jane Hudson, "In Italy, age is an asset." Jane/Katherine's retort: "Well, if it is, then I'm loaded."
*Spinster is the word used in one of the movie's taglines.
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