Toto Looks for a Wife
| Toto Looks for a Wife | |
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| Italian | Totò cerca moglie |
| Directed by | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia |
| Written by | Agenore Incrocci Sandro Continenza Furio Scarpelli Vittorio Metz |
| Starring | Totò Ave Ninchi Aroldo Tieri |
| Cinematography | Mario Albertelli |
| Edited by | Renato Cinquini |
| Music by | Franco Colosimo Amedeo Escobar Italia Savona |
Production company | Forum Film |
| Distributed by | Variety Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Toto Looks for a Wife (Italian: Totò cerca moglie) is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Totò, Ave Ninchi and Marisa Merlini.[1]
The film's art director was Alberto Boccianti.
Plot
[edit]In 1950 in Australia, Aunt Agatha writes to her nephew Toto, informing him she won't send him more money to live in Italy until he gets married. Toto is in fact a happy bachelor who dabbles in sculpture and lives in luxury off his aunt's money. Now Toto's lifestyle is threatened and he's forced to find a partner before his aunt comes to Rome to meet the new couple. Thanks to a friend (Aroldo Tieri), Toto is helped, but the women are horrible or already ammogliate, which causes many misunderstandings. At the end bull is mistaken for a delinquent because of mistaken identity and misunderstanding continues when they come into the house of Toto's aunt and the new "wife", or a woman who is made to pay for pretending to be his wife Toto.
Cast
[edit]- Totò as Toto
- Ave Ninchi as La zia
- Marisa Merlini as Luisa, the model
- Aroldo Tieri as Pippo, the painter
- Paul Muller as Carlo secret agent Z-15
- Mario Castellani as Filippo
- Nerio Bernardi as Giacinto
- Bruno Cantalamessa
- Giovanna Galletti as secret agent K-8
- Enzo Garinei as the son of Bellavista (as Vincenzo Garinei)
- Zoe Incrocci
- Elvi Lissiak as Adelina
- Anna Maestri as La nera australiana
- Nino Marchesini as signor Marco
- Mario Meniconi as Alberto
References
[edit]- ^ Moliterno, Gino. The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009. p. 316. ASIN B00CC96OMU. ISBN 0810868962
External links
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