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) the gamine Hepburn ... With little competition from the wooden Cooper, the picture is stolen by Chevalier's bravura turn." Channel 4 stated that "the film as a whole is rather let down by the implausible chemistry that is meant to develop between Cooper and Hepburn." Notes Bibliography 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"),