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Watch How To Dance Right Black Orchid 1958
with Sophia Loren as Rose Bianco (a widowed florist looking after her son, who is at a working farm for troubled boys), Anthony Quinn as Frank Valente (an optimistic widower who has a grown daughter), from The Black Orchid 1958 film directed by Martin Ritt.
Dialogues with pictures
FRANK VALENTE: There, you see how special you are?
I serve you coffee in the parlor.
Oh, excuse me. Hey, Rose. You know, when I used to see you... I mean, when I used to go to the Gallos, and I used to see you, you know what I used to call you?
ROSE BIANCO: Yes.
FRANK VALENTE: How do you know?
ROSE BIANCO: Giulia.
FRANK VALENTE: No. You know, still you shouldn't dress in mourning all the time. You know,
you could be a yellow orchid,
maybe a pink. Hey. A red one.
ROSE BIANCO: But I got a lot of pretty colors. Oh, yes. Every week, I used to buy a new dress to go dancing and, oh, you know.
FRANK VALENTE: Hey, you like to dance?
ROSE BIANCO: Oh, yes, I do.
FRANK VALENTE: Yeah? I used to be one of the best dancers in the neighborhood.
ROSE BIANCO: Oh,
you're joking
FRANK VALENTE: No, honest. Honest. I'll show you. Here, you think I'm kidding?
ROSE BIANCO: Ah, it feels good?
FRANK VALENTE: What's the matter?
ROSE BIANCO: This is the first thing I see about you that's old-fashioned.
FRANK VALENTE: What do you mean, "old-fashioned"? You want me to get fancy?
ROSE BIANCO: But you don't know how to move. Oh, really.
FRANK VALENTE: What's the matter with that?
ROSE BIANCO:
I'll show you how to dance right.
FRANK VALENTE: Oh, you're going to show me?
ROSE BIANCO: Yes.
FRANK VALENTE: All right. Whoa, wait. I lead.
ROSE BIANCO: No, no, no. Just till you learn.
FRANK VALENTE: All right, all right.
ROSE BIANCO: Go on, turn around! Now grab my hand!
FRANK VALENTE: What are you doing?
ROSE BIANCO: Now spin me! Now, turn around. Turn around.
FRANK VALENTE: You're getting kind of fancy. I'm getting dizzy.
ROSE BIANCO: Me too. Watch
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Notes
Joseph Stefano originally wrote The Black Orchid as a one-hour television drama. Paramount Pictures purchased it with the goal of expanding it into a movie.
Loren was 23 years old during filming, only 11 years older than Jimmy Baird, who plays her son, and 3 years older than Ina Balin, who plays her future step-daughter.
Frank Valente, played by Quinn, wants to move to Somerville, New Jersey, about 45 miles from New York City.
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