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Rome Johnny, a young American working in the Stock Exchange in Rome, and Luisa, a Swedish girl living in that city with her parents, meet and fall in love. A young man in a hurry, Johnny uses a client's funds in a losing speculation and winds up in jail. A guard is accidentally killed when he manages to escape. With what could be a day or a year before his re-capture, the lovers enjoy to the full their "brief season" of romance and passion in the Italian countryside and at a luxury hotel. |
Brief Season
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Production Notes Christopher Jones' dream of owning a $20,000 Ferrari racer came true while on location in Rome for Columbia Pictures' "Brief Season," the Dino De Laurentiis production in color which co-stars Pia Degermark. Chris accepted delivery of his prize possession the day before Italy had a gasoline strike, delaying his test spin. Jones was looking forward to taking Miss Degermark for a drive the weekend the strike ended, but had to postpone it when their film went on a seven-day schedule. Jones decided he would at least drive the Ferrari to and from the studio, only to have the production manager inform him that insurance regulations on the film forbade him from driving the racing car. Lovely Pia Degermark, the Swedish actress starring with Christopher Jones in Columbia Pictures' "Brief Season," the Dino De Laurentiis production in color, uses her experience as a skier to help her career as an actress. "It's fun, but so is skiing," she says. "When I find a slope, or a part, that's too steep and rocky. I turn back." They say that "home is where you hang your hat." Pia Degermark, who stars with Christopher Jones in Columbia Pictures' "Brief Season," the Dino De Laurentiis production in color, at last report had more places than hats! Daughter of a wealthy Swedish textile manufacturer, Pia has apartments in Paris, Rome and London, a villa at Cannes, a chalet in Switzerland and she also has leased a brownstone in New York City. Like sunny California, sunny Italy is not always so sunny. During production of Columbia Pictures' "Brief Season," the Dino De Laurentiis production starring Christopher Jones and Pia Degermark, the day dawned sunny and warm for a day's shooting at the mountain village of Frascati, near Rome. At 10 a.m., the rains came, and everyone fled to a coffee bar. At noon, the rain turned to hail and the "Brief Season" company adjourned to a restaurant. By three, the hail had turned to snow, so everyone holed up in a hotel. |