Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (German: Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau) is a 1927 novella by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.[1] It was filmed in 1931, 1944, 1952, 1968, and 2002.[2][3] A television movie, Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life, was telecast in 1961, starring Ingrid Bergman and Rip Torn.[4]
Plot
Rip Torn and Ingrid Bergman in Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life (CBS-TV, March 20, 1961)
"It traces a woman through a single day, but that day is simultaneously the most vividly wonderful and ultimately terrible of her life. She is an English widow who becomes mesmerised by the almost suicidally reckless gambling of a failed Polish diplomat one evening in Monte Carlo. From this first spark of interest, she is drawn into his troubled, unstable life."[5]
