A Touch of Class

A Touch of Class is a romantic comedy that was released October 1, 1973. Staring in it are George Segal as Steven Blackburn and Glenda Jackson who won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Rile as Vicki Allessio.

It was nominated for 4 other Oscars: Best Music, Original Dramatic Score, Best Music Original Song, Best Picture and Best Writing Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070819/

Steve Blackburn (George Segal )is an American insurance executive for is working in London. He finds himself continually running into a British divorcee fashion designer Vicki Allessio (Glenda Jackson). It seems fate has continued to throw them together and they begin to find themselves attracted to each other. Both agree that they would be open to an uncomplicated sexual relationship.

Steve and Vicki soon find that they have fallen in love. Steve suggests that they travel to Spain together for a romantic rendezvous. What was meant to be special romantic holiday quickly turned into one fiasco after another. After their return to London they continue to see each other but the complications that they had experienced in Spain continue to haunt them. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19730709/REVIEWS/307090301/1023

• George Segal as Steven Blackburn

• Glenda Jackson as Vicki Allessio

• Paul Sorvino as Walter Menkes

• K. Callan as Patty Menkes

• Cec Linder as Wendell Thompson

• Michael Elwyn as Cecil

• Mary Barclay as Martha Thompson

• Nadim Sawalha as Night Hotel Manager

• Ian Thompson as Derek, Steve's Secretary

• Eve Karpf as Miss Ramos, London Airline Clerk

• David de Keyser as Doctor Alvarez

• Gaye Brown as Dora French

• Carl Oatley as Bell Boy

• Rebecca De Los Reyes as Rent a Car Clerk

• Felipe Solano as Malaga Airline Clerk

• Antonio Merchan as Enrique the Caddy

• Hidegarde Neil as Gloria Blackburn

"A Touch of Class is sensational. Director, writer and producer Melvin Frank has accomplished precisely what Peter Bogdanovich did in What's Up, Doc? - revitalizing, updating and invigorating an earlier film genre to smash results." — Variety Staff .http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117795825.html?categoryid=31&cs=1

"Melvin Frank's "A Touch of Class" is a very patchy movie enormously funny in bits and pieces and sometimes downright dumb. When the material matches their intelligence, Segal and Miss Jackson are extremely funny lovers, as on their first night when they find themselves lying in bed, each on his (or her) "wrong" side, arguing about how they will change locations with a minimum of fuss." — Vincent Canby The New York Timeshttp://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9C05E3DD123DE13ABC4951DFB0668388669EDE&partner=Rotten%20Tomatoes

"Melvin Frank's "A Touch of Class" is a sharp-edged, often very funny dissection of a love affair between two possibly incompatible people. But then it gets serious with itself and ends on a note that doesn't satisfy us."' '— Roger Ebert http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19730709/REVIEWS/307090301/1023