Sylvia

Sylvia (1965)

Carroll Baker is the Fury. George Maharis is the Force. Sylvia is the Explosion!

Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.

Date of release
1965-02-10
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Romance
Director
Gordon Douglas

Casting

Interesting facts

Sylvia is a 1965 American drama film directed by Gordon Douglas, written by Sydney Boehm, and starring Carroll Baker, George Maharis, and Peter Lawford. The film, based on the 1960 novel of the same name by E. V. Cunningham, focuses on a mysterious woman whose millionaire fiancé hires a detective to uncover the truth about her past.

Production

The film was based on a novel by E. V. Cunningham, a pen name for Howard Fast. The novel was published by Doubleday in 1960, and was popular enough for Fast to write other suspense-mystery novels under the pseudonym of E. V. Cunningham, with titles that were women's names. (Others included Penelope.)

Film rights were bought by producer Martin Poll in April 1961. Poll called the film "a suspense love story". He originally set the film up at Paramount as a coproduction with Paul Newman and Martin Ritt's company – Newman was going to star and Ritt direct. Fast was hired to write a script and filming was scheduled to start December 1961. This did not happen.

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