Two Million for a Smile (Italian: Due milioni per un sorriso) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Carlo Borghesio and Mario Soldati and starring Enrico Viarisio, Giuseppe Porelli and Elsa De Giorgi.[1]
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| Cinematography | Mario Albertelli |
| Edited by | Mario Bonotti |
| Music by | Felice Montagnini |
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| Distributed by | Lux Film |
Release date | 7 August 1939 |
Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gino Brosio.
Synopsis edit
An Italian industrialist who has made a fortune in America returns to Italy planning to make a film about a beautiful woman who smiled at him before he left his home country years before. With the assistance of a man who resembles his younger self he sets out to find the perfect woman for the role.
Cast edit
- Enrico Viarisio as Mister Giacomo Perotti / Martino Bo
- Giuseppe Porelli as Spinelli, il segretario
- Elsa De Giorgi as Maria
- Sandra Ravel as Lisetta
- Romolo Costa as Il barista
- Dhia Cristiani as Piera
- Lauro Gazzolo as L'ufficiale giudiziario
- Pina Renzi as La guarderobiera
- Ermanno Roveri as Il banchista / il regista
- Giuseppe Pierozzi as Il cuoco / il truccatore
- Vasco Creti as Il capotreno
- Guido Barbarisi as L'elettricista / il capocameriere
- Carlo Bressan as L'autista del furgoncino
- Maria Polese as La padrona della copisteria
- Raimondo Van Riel as L'oste
- Carlo Ranieri as Il primo cameriere / l'operatore
- Antonietta Vilella as La fanciulla dell'organino
- Livia Minelli as Un'attrice
References edit
- ^ Curti p.22
Bibliography edit
- Roberto Curti. Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker. McFarland, 2017.
External links edit
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