Tenderly (internationally released as The Girl Who Couldn't Say No, also known as Il suo modo di fare) is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Franco Brusati. It was referred as "a successful attempt to refresh the American sophisticated comedy with themes and sensibilities of today" and its style was compared to Frank Capra's.Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, B & N, Volume 30, Società Gestione Editoriali, 1969.
Plot After fifteen years apart, a young, motivated surgeon named Franco (Segal) runs into his childhood friend Yolanda (Lisi) in Rome. They fall in love and travel to Florence together, but Yolanda's unpredictable, often unusual personality makes the future of their relationship highly uncertain.Turner Classic Movies plot overview
Cast Virna Lisi : Yolanda George Segal : Franco Lila Kedrova : Yolanda's Mother Akim Tamiroff : Uncle Egidio Paola Pitagora : Widow Mario Brega : Cripple Riccardo Billi : Salesman Anne Cumming : Franco's motherRichard Davenport-Hines, ‘Cumming, (Felicity) Anne (1917–1993)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 accessed 11 April 2017
Production It was known during shooting as Runaround.
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