Daisy Miller (1974) on Netflix
At a Swiss spa, young American Daisy Miller meets American expatriate Frederick Winterbourne, whose dowager aunt warns him about her reckless ways with men.
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Plot summary
In this version of Henry James' novella "Daisy Miller", a young, bright and bubbly 19th Century American girl on her Grand Tour of Europe meets a fellow American, Frederick Winterbourne. Winterbourne is shocked by Daisy's modern behavior toward life, and spends his time with her trying to figure out if she's having innocent fun or on the path to becoming a fallen woman. Along the way, Winterbourne's judgment is helped and hindered by the other people in Daisy's life. Is Daisy really naive or naughty?
Cast
- James McMurtryas Randolph C. Miller
- Andrea Esterhazyas Doctor
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Daisy Miller (1974)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Orson Welles told Peter Bogdanovich that Henry James's novel Daisy Miller was a romantic classic, and Bogdanovich promptly began preparing a film of it starring his girlfriend Cybill Shepherd, an idea that stirred little enthusiasm at the Directors Company.
- Bogdanovich's Directors Company partners Francis Ford Coppola and William Friedkin split over Daisy Miller: Coppola stayed neutral while Friedkin opposed it, telling Bogdanovich they had promised Bludhorn commercial films, but Bogdanovich made it anyway.
- Peter Bogdanovich said he wished he had not made Daisy Miller, calling it a good picture that he knew while making it was not commercial, and that its financial failure threw the studio's confidence in him and helped ruin his next two pictures.
