Lady L

Thief and anarchist Armand (Paul Newman) disguised and in flight, enters a Paris brothel and snatches not-yet-employee Louise (Sophia Loren), fleeing cops led by Inspector Mercier (Claude Dauphin), in writer-director Peter Ustinov's Lady L, 1965.

Louise (Sophia Loren), bearing news, catches boyfriend Armand (Paul Newman) drawing the short straw in a plot with his new communist pals (Daniel Emilfork, Jacques Dufilho, Eugene Deckers), at their Alpine hideout, in writer-director Peter Ustinov's Lady L, 1965.

Picturesque and wacky opening from writer and director Peter Ustinov, with star Sophia Loren, age 30, playing the heroine at 80, from Lady L, 1965, from a novel by Romain Gary.

Beautiful laundress Sophia Loren rises through European society via Paul Newman and David Niven in Peter Ustinov's Lady L (1965).