At Long Last Love
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| Directed by | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Produced by | Peter Bogdanovich Frank Marshall |
| Written by | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Starring |
Burt Reynolds Cybill Shepherd |
| Music by | Cole Porter |
| Cinematography | Laszlo Kovacs |
| Edited by | Douglas Robertson |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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123 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5.14 million |
| Box office | $2.5 million |
At Long Last Love is a 1975 American musical romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and stars Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd.
The film attempts to pay homage to the great Hollywood musicals of the 1930s such as Swing Time and Top Hat. It features 18 songs with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.
Many have cited it as one of the worst films ever made.
Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into the Italian gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together. The foursome do the town, accompanied by Brooke's companion Elizabeth, who throws herself at Michael's butler and chauffeur Rodney James.
The four friends change partners at a party, where Brooke and Michael step outside behind Kitty and Johnny. In an effort to make the others jealous, Kitty, Johnny, Brooke, Michael, Elizabeth and Rodney begin their romance.
Bogdanovich originally announced the cast would be Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn, Ryan O'Neal and the director himself. He was inspired by the films of Ernst Lubitsch. Shepherd had recorded an album of Cole Porter songs paid for by Paramount.
Resisting the urge to shoot another film in black and white, Bogdanovich had it art directed as "Black and White in Color." The film is unique in being the first since the early 1930s in which all of the musical numbers were recorded live, without the actors lip-synching to a previously recorded soundtrack. (This method was also used by Rex Harrison for his songs in My Fair Lady and by Barbra Streisand for the climactic "My Man" in Funny Girl). At Long Last Love is also unusual in that most musical numbers were performed in one continuous take.
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