The Merry Widower (1950 film)
1950 film
- July 1950 (1950-07)
Running time
The Merry Widower (Italian: Il vedovo allegro) is a 1950 Italian romance film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Carlo Dapporto, Isa Barzizza and Amedeo Nazzari.[1] It was shot at the Farnesina Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone.
Plot
Bebè, a variety artist, runs a nightclub in Cannes on the French Riviera. Unknown to both his girlfriend Lucy and the other performers, he has a young daughter living in San Remo with his grandmother. Lucy becomes suspicious due to his repeated absences, unaware that Bebè's daughter is ill and needs an expensive operation.
Cast
- Carlo Dapporto as Bebè
- Isa Barzizza as Lucy
- Amedeo Nazzari as Il professore De Carlo
- Ave Ninchi as Dolores
- Irasema Dilián as Peggy
- Luigi Pavese as Il commissario dell'Interpol
- Mimma Beccari as La piccola Anna Maria
- Arnoldo Foà as Roy
- Tina De Mola as La maestrina
- Toti Dal Monte as La suocera
- Cesco Baseggio as Il suocero
- Laura Gore as La dottoressa
- Ubaldo Lay as Shaphiro
- Ughetto Bertucci as Il primo portiere del tabarin
- Mario Pisu as Il nuovo portiere del tabarin
- Aldo Silvani as Un medico anziano
- Vinicio Sofia as Un poliziotto
References
- ^ Chiti & Poppi p.394
Bibliography
- Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
External links
- The Merry Widower at IMDb
- Il vedovo allegro in CineDataBase
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Films directed by Mario Mattoli
- Full Speed (1934)
- I Love You Only (1935)
- The Man Who Smiles (1936)
- Sette giorni all'altro mondo (1936)
- La damigella di Bard (1936)
- Music in the Square (1936)
- The Last Days of Pompeo (1937)
- These Children (1937)
- Felicita Colombo (1937)
- Destiny (1938)
- Triumph of Love (1938)
- Nonna Felicità (1938)
- A Lady Did It (1938)
- The Lady in White (1938)
- At Your Orders, Madame (1939)
- We Were Seven Widows (1939)
- Defendant, Stand Up! (1939)
- Mille chilometri al minuto! (1939)
- Lo vedi come sei... lo vedi come sei? (1939)
- Abandonment (1940)
- The Pirate's Dream (1940)
- Non me lo dire! (1940)
- Light in the Darkness (1941)
- Schoolgirl Diary (1941)
- I Live as I Please (1942)
- Invisible Chains (1942)
- The Three Pilots (1942)
- The Lady Is Fickle (1942)
- Sealed Lips (1942)
- Nothing New Tonight (1942)
- The Valley of the Devil (1943)
- Lively Teresa (1943)
- Anything for a Song (1943)
- The Last Wagon (1943)
- The Za-Bum Circus (1944)
- Life Begins Anew (1945)
- Departure at Seven (1946)
- The Two Orphans (1947)
- Toto Tours Italy (1948)
- Fear and Sand (1948)
- Cab Number 13 (1948)
- Assunta Spina (1948)
- Little Lady (1949)
- The Firemen of Viggiù (1949)
- Adam and Eve (1949)
- Totò Tarzan (1950)
- The Merry Widower (1950)
- The Elusive Twelve (1950)
- The Cadets of Gascony (1950)
- Toto the Sheik (1950)
- Toto the Third Man (1951)
- The Steamship Owner (1951)
- Arrivano i nostri (1951)
- My Heart Sings (1951)
- Accidents to the Taxes!! (1951)
- Five Paupers in an Automobile (1952)
- Sardinian Vendetta (1952)
- Neapolitan Turk (1953)
- Siamo tutti inquilini (1953)
- Funniest Show on Earth (1953)
- Two Nights with Cleopatra (1954)
- Toto Seeks Peace (1954)
- The Doctor of the Mad (1954)
- Poverty and Nobility (1954)
- L'ultimo amante (1955)
- Eighteen Year Olds (1955)
- I giorni più belli (1956)
- Peppino, le modelle e chella là (1957)
- Toto, Peppino and the Fanatics (1958)
- Move and I'll Shoot (1958)
- Tipi da spiaggia (1959)
- Prepotenti più di prima (1959)
- Non perdiamo la testa (1959)
- Guardatele ma non toccatele (1959)
- Gentlemen Are Born (1960)
- Un mandarino per Teo (1960)
- Appuntamento a Ischia (1960)
- Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today (1960)
- Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961)
- Hercules in the Valley of Woe (1961)
- Appuntamento in riviera (1962)
- 5 marines per 100 ragazze (1962)
- Obiettivo ragazze (1963)
- Corpse for the Lady (1964)
- For a Few Dollars Less (1966)
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