Finishing School (1953 film)

1952 French-Italian comedy film by Bernard Vorhaus

Finishing School

A scene from the filme

Directed by| Bernard Vorhaus
Written by| Norma Barzman
Ennio Flaiano
Produced by| Valentino Trevisaneto
Starring| Susan Stephen
Anna Maria Ferrero
Jacques Sernas
Cinematography| Piero Portalupi
Edited by| Gabriele Varriale
Music by| Nino Rota

Production
companies

Riviera Films
Società Italiana Cines

Distributed by| United Artists

Release date

* 24 January 1953 (1953-01-24)

Running time

| 100 minutes
Countries| France
Italy
Language| Italian

Finishing School (Italian: Fanciulle di lusso) is a 1953 French-Italian comedy film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring Susan Stephen, Anna Maria Ferrero and Jacques Sernas.[1] It was made at Cinecittà with sets designed by the art director Franco Lolli. It is also known by the alternative title of Luxury Girls.

## Plot

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After finishing her studies, an American, Susan Miller, spends a vacation period in Rome with her parents. His father, a wealthy man who led a dissipated life, sent him to complete his worldly education at the famous college of Mont-Fleuri, Switzerland.

## Cast

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* Susan Stephen as Lorna Whitmore
* Anna Maria Ferrero as Valerie De Beranger
* Jacques Sernas as Jean-Jacques
* Steve Barclay as George Whitmore
* Marina Vlady as Eljay
* Brunella Bovo as Jeannie Gordon
* Rossana Podestà as Pereira
* Elisa Cegani as Madame Charpentier
* Claudio Gora as Professor Charpentier
* Estelle Brody as Mrs. Whitmore
* Lawrence Ward as Greg Wilson
* Paola Mori as Beejay
* Roberto Risso as Steve
* Eva Vanicek as Statistician
* Vera Palumbo as Knitter
* Anna Casini as Albino
* Colette Laurent as Boopie
* Bianca Manenti as Maid
* Charles Rutherford as Jean-Jacques' friend
* Mary Alcaide as Ballet Mistress
* Liana Del Balzo as Princess De Vick-Beranger
* Franco Lodi as Riding Instructor
* Leopoldo Savona as Boyfriend of Val
* Luisella Boni
* Giovanna Pala
* Roberta Primavera

## References

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1. ^ Feldner, Gorrara & Passmore p.231

## Bibliography

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* Heiko Feldner, Claire Gorrara & Kevin Passmore. The Lost Decade? The 1950s in European History, Politics, Society and Culture. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.

## External links

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* Finishing School at IMDb

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Films directed by Bernard Vorhaus

* The Ghost Camera (1933)
* On Thin Ice (1933)
* Money for Speed (1933)
* Crime on the Hill (1933)
* Blind Justice (1934)
* The Night Club Queen (1934)
* The Broken Melody (1934)
* Street Song (1935)
* Ten Minute Alibi  (1935)
* Dark World (1935)
* The Last Journey (1936)
* Dusty Ermine (1936)
* Cotton Queen (1937)
* Tenth Avenue Kid  (1937)
* King of the Newsboys (1938)
* Fisherman's Wharf (1939)
* Way Down South (1939)
* Meet Dr. Christian (1939)
* The Courageous Dr. Christian  (1940)
* Three Faces West  (1940)
* Lady from Louisiana  (1941)
* Angels with Broken Wings (1941)
* Hurricane Smith (1941)
* Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case  (1941)
* The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine  (1942)
* Ice-Capades Revue  (1942)
* Winter Wonderland (1947)
* Bury Me Dead  (1947)
* The Spiritualist (1948)
* So Young, So Bad  (1950)
* Pardon My French (1951)
* Finishing School (1953)

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Ennio Flaiano

Books written|

* A Time to Kill (1947)
* The Via Veneto Papers (1973)

Feature films written|

* Special Correspondents (1943)
* L'abito nero da sposa (1945)
* Escape to France (1948)
* Variety Lights (1950)
* Cops and Robbers (1951)
* The White Sheik (1952)
* Cavalcade of Song (1953)
* Finishing School (1953)
* I Vitelloni (1953)
* Camilla (1954)
* Modern Virgin (1954)
* La Strada (1954)
* Woman of Rome (1954)
* Il bidone (1955)
* The Sign of Venus (1955)
* Too Bad She's Bad (1955)
* Toto and Carolina (1955)
* Lucky to Be a Woman (1956)
* The Rocket from Calabuch (1956)
* Nights of Cabiria (1957)
* Fortunella (1958)
* Girls for the Summer (1958)
* Piece of the Sky (1958)
* La Dolce Vita (1960)
* Love in Rome (1960)
* La Notte (1961)
* Ghosts of Rome (1961)
* 8½ (1963)
* The Executioner (1963)
* Tonio Kröger (1964)
* The 10th Victim (1965)
* The Blood of the Walsungs (1965)
* Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
* Run for Your Wife (1965)
* The Protagonists (1968)
* Sundance and the Kid (1969)
* The Syndicate: A Death in the Family (1970)
* Liza (1972)
* The Inquiry (1986)

Segments written|

* "Elisabeth" in Daughters of Destiny (1954)
* "Outdoor Life" in A Slice of Life (1954)
* "The Temptations of Doctor Antonio" in Boccaccio '70 (1962)

Legacy|

* Premi Flaiano

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