A New Kind of Love ** (1963, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter, Eva Gabor, Maurice Chevalier) – Classic Movie Review 11,317

Husband and wife Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward co-star in THE PICTURE THAT TAKES A NEW ATTITUDE ON LOVE!

Writer-director Melville Shavelson’s 1963 A New Kind of Love stars Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, along with Thelma Ritter, Eva Gabor and Maurice Chevalier. It was nominated for two Oscars: Best Costume Design, Color (Edith Head) and Best Scoring of Music (Leith Stevens). Joanne Woodward was a Golden Globe Nominee as Best Actress – Comedy or Musical.

The provocative title makes the film seem more interesting than it is, but husband and wife team Newman and Woodward do their brisk and capable best, though way off their usual territory and comfort zone in a 1960s sex comedy.

He’s Steve Sherman, a rough and ready newsman in Paris, where she’s Samantha Blake, a cog in the rag trade, where she’s been mistaken for a posh hooker, and that’s why Newman wants to interview her.

And because it’s Paris, love is in the air and Chevalier is in the movie (as himself).

A New Kind of Love is so lightweight it just blows away. Audrey Hepburn has a cameo as a fashion model.

Also in the cast are George Tobias, Robert Clary, Marvin Kaplan, Jan Moriarty, Joan Staley, Robert F Simon, Audrey Betz, Eugene Borden, Sandra Downs, Ralf Harolde, Audrey Hepburn, Ted Maoes, Alphonse Martell, Torben Meyer, George Nardelli, Gene Ringold, Gladys Roach, Anne Ross, Vernon Scott, Mildred Shelton, June Smaney, Mabel Smaney, Jimmy Starr, Valerie Varda, Joan Waddell, Trude Wyler, Celeste Yarnall, and Francine York.

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