Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: Roman Holiday, and Please Don’t Eat the Daisies.

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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies: Roman Holiday from 1953, and Please Don’t Eat the Daisies from 1960
Roman Holiday is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by William Wyler.
It stars Audrey Hepburn as a princess out to see Rome on her own and Gregory Peck as a reporter.
Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance; the story and costume design also won.
The script was written by John Dighton and Dalton Trumbo, though with Trumbo on the Hollywood blacklist, he did not receive a credit, and Ian McLellan Hunter fronted for him.
Trumbo's credit was reinstated when the film was released on DVD in 2003.
On December 19, 2011, full credit for Trumbo's work was restored.
Blacklisted director Bernard Vorhaus worked on the film as an assistant director under a pseudonym.
The film was shot at the Cinecittà studios and on location around Rome during the " Hollywood on the Tiber" era.
The film was screened in the 14th Venice Film Festival within the official program.
In 1999, Roman Holiday was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The film has been considered one of the most romantic films in cinema history.
Directed by: William Wyler.
Screenplay by: Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter, and John Dighton.
Story by: Dalton Trumbo.
Produced by: William Wyler.
Starring: Gregory Peck, and Audrey Hepburn.
Cinematography: Henri Alekan, and Franz Planer.
Edited by: Robert Swink.
Music by: Georges Auric, and Victor Young.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures.
Release date: 27 August 1953.
File Length: 119 minutes.
Country: United States.
Languages: English, and Italian.
Budget: $1.5 million.
Box office: $12 million.
Please Don't Eat the Daisies is a 1960 Metrocolor comedy film in CinemaScope starring Doris Day and David Niven, made by Euterpe Inc., and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The movie was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Joe Pasternak, with Martin Melcher (Day's husband) as associate producer.
The screenplay, partly inspired by the 1957 book of the same name by Jean Kerr, a collection of humorous essays, was by Isobel Lennart.
The film also features Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn, Patsy Kelly, and Jack Weston.
Spring Byington made her final film appearance in this film but appeared in TV shows later.
A television series starring Patricia Crowley and Mark Miller premiered five years later and ran for 58 episodes.
Directed by: Charles Walters.
Screenplay by: Isobel Lennart.
Based on: Please Don't Eat The Daisies 1957 book by Jean Kerr.
Produced by: Joe Pasternak.
Starring: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Richard Haydn, and Spring Byington.
Cinematography: Robert J. Bronner.
Edited by: John McSweeney Jr.
Music by: David Rose.
Production Company: Euterpe Inc.
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Release date: 31 March 1960 (Radio City Music Hall).
File Length: 111 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $1,775,000.
Box office: $7,050,000.
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