Lively Teresa
1943 film
- 4 September 1943 (1943-09-04)
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Lively Teresa (Italian: La vispa Teresa) is a 1943 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Lilia Silvi, Roberto Villa and Carlo Ninchi.[1] It was produced in the style of the White Telephone comedies popular during the Fascist era.
The film was only fully released following the Liberation of Rome, alongside other equally innocuous films such as The Innocent Casimiro. This provoked criticism from supporters of the emerging neorealist movement who wanted to promote what they regarded as more innovative films, while the major film companies such as Lux Film and Minverva preferred more populist offerings.[2]
It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Piero Filippone and Mario Rappini.
Plot
A wealthy engineer is disturbed when he discovers that his son Alberto has fallen in love with an ambitious manicurist Luisa. He arranges for him to go on holiday to Venice while he tries to buy off Luisa. However, Luisa has secretly accompanied Alberto, and has got her friend Teresa to take her place at the beauty parlour. Alberto's parents mistake her for Luisa, and complications ensue.
Cast
- Lilia Silvi as Teresa
- Antonio Gandusio as Antonio, suo zio
- Vera Carmi as Luisa, la manicure
- Roberto Villa as Alberto Mari
- Carlo Ninchi as Carlo Mari, suo padre
- Giuditta Rissone as Matilde Mari, madre di Alberto
- Tino Scotti as Albertaccio
- Aldo Silvani as Il colonello Rossi
- Cesare Fantoni as Il maggiordomo di casa Mari
- Achille Majeroni as Un collabotatore del signor Mari
- Edda Soligo as La segretaria del Signor Mari
- Carlo Lombardi as Il commendatore
- Carlo Campanini as Un cliente dal barbiere
- Peppino Spadaro as L'usciere siciliano
- Leopoldo Valentini as Un cliente al bar
References
Bibliography
- Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.
External links
- Lively Teresa at IMDb
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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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