He reminds her how much other students used to tease Clara. The couple discuss their daughter's future, and Noel reminds her that Clara's previous suitors have been repulsed as soon as they discover she is mentally disabled. On discovering how unhappy this has made Clara, she calls her tobacco executive husband Noel and asks him to fly to Rome to meet them. She moves their holiday quickly to Rome in the hope that Clara will soon forget Fabrizio. Meg spends the remainder of the trip trying to keep the two lovers apart and fearing that Fabrizio or his family will discover the truth about her daughter. Fabrizio's family are taken with Clara and her simple remarks are taken as evidence of her innocence. Meg tries to explain her daughter's condition to Fabrizio's father but the opportunity never seems to be right.
Fabrizio is blinded by his love for Clara and believes her mental disability to be simple naivety. While taking a summer holiday in Florence with her mother Meg, 26-year-old Clara Johnson, an American, meets and falls in love with a young Italian named Fabrizio Naccarelli, played by George Hamilton. Based on the 1960 novel The Light in the Piazza by Elizabeth Spencer, the film is about a beautiful but mentally disabled young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother and the Italian man they meet during one leg of their trip.ĭistributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Light in the Piazza features extensive location shooting in 1960s Florence and Rome by the cinematographer Otto Heller. Light in the Piazza is a 1962 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, and Barry Sullivan.
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