High Noon Actress, Score, and Cinematography-Black and White). The award-winning score was written by Russian-born composer Dimitri Tiomkin. "High Noon" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 1989, the NFR's first year of existence. In Hadleyville, a small town in New Mexico Territory, Marshal Will Kane (Cooper), newly married to Amy Fowler (Grace Kelly), prepares to retire. The happy couple will soon depart for a new life to raise a family and run a store in another town. However, word arrives that Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald),
Love in the Afternoon (1957 film) Love in the Afternoon (1957 film) Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder which stars Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the Claude Anet novel "Ariane, jeune fille russe" (trans., "Ariane, Young Russian Girl"), which had been filmed as "Scampolo" in 1928 and "Scampolo, ein Kind der Strasse" (trans., "Scampolo, a Child of the Street") in 1932, the latter with a script co-written by Wilder. Wilder was inspired by a 1931 German adaptation of the novel "Ariane" directed by Paul Czinner.