Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) on Netflix
NR19631h 42mComedyDramaRomance
Angie Rossini, a Macy's salesclerk, is pregnant after a night with musician Rocky Papasano. She asks him to help pay for an abortion while her brothers push her to marry a restaurateur.
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Plot summary
Angie Rossini is a first-generation Italian who works as a salesclerk at Macy's in Manhattan and lives with her Italian-American family. Her working-class older brothers, Dominick and Julio, press her to marry Anthony Columbo, a successful restaurateur. Angie spends one night with Rocky Papasano, a part-time musician, and finds she is pregnant. She confronts him at a musicians union hiring hall, and her only request is that he help fund an abortion and give her the name of a doctor willing to perform one. Rocky and Angie scrape up the money for the abortion, and Angie's brothers chase the two of them through the neighborhood.
Cast
- Mario Badolatias Elio Papasano
- Elena Karamas The Woman
- E. Nick Alexanderas Guido Rossini
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Warren Beatty, who was then living with Natalie Wood, was offered the lead in the film but turned the role down.
- Screenwriter Arnold Schulman wrote the script on spec after pitching his original idea to studios and failing to sell it; his agent Abe Lastfogel then attached Natalie Wood and sold the script to Paramount.
- Once Alan J. Pakula and Robert Mulligan agreed to make the film, the studio was willing to cast Steve McQueen in the lead even though he was not yet established as a star.
- Screenwriter Arnold Schulman said he worked on the film like a playwright, staying involved all the way through, with mutual respect and rehearsals on the set.
