A TOUCH OF CLASS: is what this film needs

It's difficult to understand what motivated the Academy to award Glenda Jackson the 1974 best actress Oscar for her performance in A TOUCH OF CLASS.

Neither she nor co-star George Segal cover themselves in glory in this tedious, contrived, heavy handed rom-com which plays like an extended episode of a bad 1970s tv sitcom. 
The title is an ironic reference, to Segal's character, a married man living in London who embarks on an affair with Jackson's recently divorced mother of two kids. But it could also stand as description of what writer-producer-director Melvin Frank hoped Jackson would bring to the project. 
It's not an unreasonable expectation given her best actress Oscar for "Women in Love" in 1971 and her nomination in the same category the following year for the superb "Sunday Bloody Sunday."
She's undoubtedly a class act but what this film really needs is a touch of style and sophistication.