The Naked Maja (film)

The Naked Maja
Theatrical Film Poster
Directed by	Henry Koster
Written by	Norman Corwin Giorgio Prosperi Albert Lewin Oscar Saul (story) Talbot Jennings (story)
Produced by	Silvio Clementelli Goffredo Lombardo
Starring	Ava Gardner Anthony Franciosa Amedeo Nazzari Gino Cervi Lea Padovani
Cinematography	Giuseppe Rotunno
Edited by	Mario Serandrei
Music by	Angelo Lavagnino
Distributed by	United Artists Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	20 December 1958 (1958-12-20) (Italy) 10 June 1959 (1959-06-10) (U.S.)
Running time	111 minutes
Countries	United States Italy
Language	English
Budget	$913,000^[1]
Box office	$1 million (outside US/Canada)^[1]

The Naked Maja is a 1958 Italian-American co-production made by S.G.C., Titanus, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists.^[2]^[3] This historical film recounting of the romance between the painter Francisco Goya and the Duchess of Alba was directed by Henry Koster, and produced by Silvio Clementelli and Goffredo Lombardo. The screenplay was by Norman Corwin, Giorgio Prosperi and Albert Lewin based on a story by Oscar Saul and Talbot Jennings. The music score was by Angelo Lavagnino and the cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno.

The film stars Ava Gardner and Anthony Franciosa with Amedeo Nazzari, Gino Cervi, Lea Padovani, Massimo Serato, and a largely Italian cast. It is based on a novel by Noel Gerson.

Plot

In Spain at the end of the 18th century, the painter Francisco de Goya met the Duchess of Alba. She became his patron, model and mistress...

Cast

Ava Gardner as Maria Teresa de Cayetana, Duchess of Alba
Anthony Franciosa as Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Amedeo Nazzari as Manuel Godoy
Gino Cervi as King Carlos IV
Lea Padovani as Queen Maria Luisa
Massimo Serato as Rodrigo Sanchez
Renzo Cesana as Bayeu
Carlo Giustini as José
Carlo Rizzo as Juanito

Box office

According to MGM records the film earned $1 million at the box office outside the US and Canada resulting in a loss to the studio of $513,000.^[1]

See also

List of American films of 1958

References

^ ^a ^b ^c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^ "The Naked Maja". FilmAffinity. filmaffinity.com.
^ "The Naked Maja". AFI. afi.com. Retrieved 28 December 2015.

External links

The Naked Maja at IMDb

Films directed by Henry Koster

Paintings

Consecration of Aloysius Gonzaga as Patron Saint of Youth (c. 1763)
The Holy Family with Saints Joachim and Anne (c. 1769)
The Victorious Hannibal Seeing Italy from the Alps for the First Time (1770–1771)
The Rape of Europa (1772)
Christ Crucified (1780)
The Greasy Pole (1786–87)
The Drunk Mason (1786–1787)
Paintings for the alameda of the Dukes of Osuna (1786–1787)
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Curing a Cripple (1787)
Yard with Lunatics (1793–1794)
Prison Interior (1793–1794)
Assault of Thieves (1793–1794)
The Duchess of Alba and la Beata (1795)
Witches' Flight (1797–1798)
The Bewitched Man (1797–1798)
Witches' Sabbath (1798)
La maja desnuda (c. 1797–1800)
La maja vestida (1800–1805)
Allegory of Industry (c. 1805)
Majas on a Balcony (c. 1808–1812)
The Water Bearer (1808–1812)
The Knifegrinder (1808–1812)
Still Life of a Lamb's Head and Flanks (1808–1812)
The Colossus (after 1808)
Truth, Time and History (1812–1814)
The Madhouse (1812–1819)
The Inquisition Tribunal (1812–1819)
The Second of May 1808 (1814)
The Third of May 1808 (1814)
The Junta of the Philippines (1815)
A Village Bullfight (1815–1819)
The Burial of the Sardine (c. 1816)
A Procession of Flagellants (c. 1816)
The Forge (c. 1817)
Bullfight (1824)

Murals	Adoration of the Name of God (1772) Life of the Virgin (1774)
Portraits	The Family of the Infante Don Luis (1783–84) The Duke and Duchess of Osuna and their Children (1787–88) Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga (The Red Boy) (c. 1788) Self-Portrait at an Easel (c. 1790–1795) La Tirana (1792) La Tirana (1794) The Marquise de la Solana (1795) The White Duchess (1795) Charles IV (c. 1795) The Black Duchess (1797) Bernardo de Iriarte (1797) Ferdinand Guillemardet (1798–1799) Charles IV in his Hunting Clothes (1799) Maria Luisa of Parma (1799–1800) The Countess of Chinchon (1800) Charles IV of Spain and His Family (1800–18) Manuel Godoy (1801) Doña Isabel de Porcel (1804–1805) The Marchioness of Santa Cruz (1805) Doña Antonia Zárate (1805) Doña Antonia Zárate (1810–1811) The Duke of Wellington (1812) Josefa Bayeu (1814–1816) Ferdinand VII (1815) Self-Portrait at 69 years (1815) Juan Antonio Cuervo (1819) Self-Portrait with Dr Arrieta (1820) Don Ramón Satué (1823) The Milkmaid of Bordeaux (1825–1827)
Tapestry cartoons (list)	The Boar Hunt (1775) The Parasol (c. 1777) Boys Playing Soldiers (1778–79) Children in a Chariot (1779) The Swing (1779) La novillada (1780) The Grape Harvest (1786) The Threshing Floor (1786) Summer (1786–87) The Drunk Mason (1786–1787) Blind Man's Bluff (1789) The Wedding (1791–92)
Black Paintings (c. 1819–1823)	Saturn Devouring His Son Judith and Holofernes Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) A Pilgrimage to San Isidro La Leocadia Two Old Men Men Reading Man Mocked by Two Women Fight with Cudgels Pilgrimage to the Fountain of San Isidro Atropos Asmodea Two Old Ones Eating Soup The Dog

Print series

Los Caprichos (1797–98)	And So Was His Grandfather The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
The Prisoners (1810–1815)
The Disasters of War (1810–1820)	This is worse (c. 1812–13)
La Tauromaquia (1815–16)	Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the mayor of Torrejón
Los Disparates (1815–1823)	A way of flying (c. 1815–16)
The Bulls of Bordeaux (1824–25)

Museums

Depictions

The Naked Maja (1958 film)
Goya, a Story of Solitude (1971 film)
Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971 film)
Goya: A Life in Song (1989 album)
Goya in Bordeaux (1999 film)
Volavérunt (1999 film)
Goya's Ghosts (2006 film)
The Ministry of Time – Episode 25: Time of the Enlightened (2017)

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