Daisy Miller (film)

Daisy Miller
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPeter Bogdanovich
Screenplay byFrederic Raphael
Based onDaisy Miller
by Henry James
Produced byPeter Bogdanovich
Starring
CinematographyAlberto Spagnoli
Edited byVerna Fields
Music byAngelo Francesco Lavagnino
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • May 22, 1974 (1974-05-22)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.2 million[1]

Daisy Miller is a 1974 American drama film produced and directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and starring Cybill Shepherd in the title role. The screenplay by Frederic Raphael is based on the 1878 novella by Henry James. The lavish period costumes and sets were done by Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Mariolina Bono and John Furniss.

Bogdanovich later said he wished he had not made the film, claiming "It's a good picture, there's nothing wrong with it", but said "I knew when we were making it that it wasn't commercial" and "if I had been smart about things...I would not have done something so completely uncommercial." He says the film's financial failure "threw the studio's confidence in me, that I would do a picture like that instead of thinking only in terms of box office" and "helped fuck up the next two pictures...they came out not the way I wanted."[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference peter was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Hogan, Ron (2005). The stewardess is flying the plane! : American films of the 1970s. Bulfinch Press. pp. 14–15.