Sylvia (1965 film)

Sylvia
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Gordon Douglas
Produced by	Martin Poll
Written by	Sydney Boehm
Starring	Carroll Baker George Maharis Peter Lawford
Music by	David Raksin
Cinematography	Joseph Ruttenberg
Edited by	Frank Bracht
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	February 10, 1965 (USA)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English French Spanish
Box office	$1,500,000

Sylvia is a 1965 drama film directed by Gordon Douglas, written by Sydney Boehm and starring George Maharis, Carroll Baker and Peter Lawford.

Released by Paramount Pictures, it was filmed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Sylvia West seems just about perfect in the eyes of California millionaire Frederic Summers, who proposes marriage to her. She is beautiful, brilliant, financially independent, writes poetry and seems to personify exactly what he wants in a woman.

But as a precaution, Summers brings in a private investigator, Alan Macklin, to do a background check. Macklin travels to Sylvia's hometown of Pittsburgh, where to his surprise he learns that Sylvia is a former prostitute and a blackmailer whose fortune mainly comes from illegal means.

Macklin elects not to inform his client of this, however, because he has the bad luck to fall in love with Sylvia himself.