Plot summary
Epifania Parerga, an Italian living in London, inherits her father's fortune and becomes the richest woman in the world. By his will, she may marry only a man who turns £500 into £15,000 in three months. Smitten with Alastair, a tennis player, she gives him £500 in stock and buys it back for £15,000. He cannot live with her domineering ways and keeps company with Polly Smith. Epifania plunges into the Thames, where Dr. Ahmed el Kabir, an Indian physician who runs a clinic for the poor, rows past without helping her. She swims ashore and accuses him of being an assassin, and Julius Sagamore, the family solicitor, suggests therapy with the psychiatrist Adrian Bland.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Millionairess (1960)
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- George Martin produced the song himself and wanted it in the film's soundtrack, but the film's producers refused; the studio released it as a stand-alone single to promote the film, and it became a UK chart hit in 1960.
