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Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job at a small bookstore in Rome, and meets Don, who has just broken up with his girlfriend. Prudence and Don tour Italy together, and romance naturally follows.
To demonstrate the beauty of love to a student to whom love had been made to be an ugly thing, twenty-one year old Prudence Bell, the assistant librarian at Briarcroft College for Women in Connecticut, provides a copy of a banned romance novel to that student. Due to this action, Prudence faces disciplinary action from the schools board. Instead, Prudence, who has never experienced love herself, decides to take her own advice by quitting, and searching for love by traveling by ship from New York to Rome, where she plans to live. There, she begins a romance with Don Porter, an American graduate student, who has been living in Rome for the past year in the same villa where Prudence is staying. Despite doing nothing improper, they keep their romance a secret if only to stop the gossip in the villa, especially about the summer vacation they take together. An obstacle in their romance arises in the form of artist Lyda Kent, Dons former and more experienced girlfriend, with whom he had a year long romance which she ended turbulently. Lydas return to Rome is accompanied by some personal issues she is facing which she wants Dons help to resolve. Believing she needs to compete on Lydas level not only for Don but men in general, Prudence seeks advice from her man-wise boss, bookstore owner Daisy Bronson, and Roberto Orlandi, a suave Italian she met on the trans-Atlantic trip, he who wanted to be Prudences first love.
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Don Porter
Suzanne Pleshette
Prudence Bell
Rossano Brazzi
Roberto Orlandi
Angie Dickinson
Lyda Kent
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Constance Ford
Daisy Bronson
Al Hirt
Al Hirt
Iphigenie Castiglioni
Contessa
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Waiter
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Guest
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