''Bluebeard's Six Wives'' (Italian: ''Le sei mogli di Barbablù'') is a 1950 Italian

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directed by

Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (8 July 1894 – 4 January 1998) was an Italian film director whose career spanned from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. He mainly directed adventure pictures and popular comedies, including some starring Totò. His 1942 ...

and starring

Totò Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi de Curtis di Bisanzio (15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967), best known by his stage name Totò (), or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and nicknamed ''il Principe della risata ...

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and

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.Moliterno p.48 The film's sets were designed by the

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s Alberto Boccianti and

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Plot

Toto Esposito is a young lover who tries to abduct his beloved to marry her. However, Toto is wrong, and kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him, and chases him when Toto escapes. In a last attempt to escape by train from Carmela, Totò meets his friend Amilcare and a beautiful American journalist named Lana Ross, which offers the two a deal. Toto and Amilcare have to pretend detectives, who are investigating the death of many girls at the hands of a serial killer nicknamed "

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". Toto has to be the main dish of deception, because he has to pretend to be the boyfriend of Lana, who in the meantime is trying to fool the murderous Bluebeard, pretending to be in love with him.

Cast

as Totò Esposito *

as Lana Ross *

Arturo Bragaglia Arturo Bragaglia (7 January 1893 – 21 January 1962) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1938 to 1961. Selected filmography References External links * 1893 births 1962 deaths Italian male f ...

as Alvaro *

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as Ladislau Zichetti / Barbablù *

Aldo Bufi Landi Aldo Bufi Landi (7 April 1923 – 2 February 2016) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1947 and 2013. Selected filmography * '' Malaspina'' (1947) * '' Madunnella'' (1948) * '' Assunta Spina'' (1948) * ''L ...

as Il vero Patson *

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as Amilcare *

as Nick Parter *

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as Silvana *

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as Giorgio * Anna Di Lorenzo as Cameriera * Silvia Fazi as Domenica *

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as Maria *

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as Paesano * Franco Jamonte as Pecorino *

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as Ragazza rapita *

Nino Marchesini Nino Marchesini (1895 – 13 January 1961) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1931 to 1961. Filmography References External links * 1895 births 1961 deaths Italian male film actors {{Italy-film- ...

as Ispettore * Arnaldo Mochetti as Giuseppe *

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as Renato *

Eduardo Passarelli Eduardo Passarelli (20 July 1903 – 9 December 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 43 films between 1937 and 1962. Filmography References External links * 1903 births 1968 deaths Italian male film actors 20th-centur ...

as Impresario Pompe Funebri *

Luigi Pavese Luigi Pavese (25 October 1897 – 13 December 1969) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Asti, Pavese started his career in 1916 working as a silent film actor at 19 years of age. He then began his theatrical debut in 192 ...

as Lucas *

Mario Pisu Mario Pisu (21 May 1910 – 17 July 1976) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Montecchio Emilia, Pisu was considered to be one of the most elegant performers of the Italian cinema. He began his career on stage and screen in ...

as Sergio *

Leonardo Bragaglia Leonardo Bragaglia (c. 1932 – August 1, 2020) was an Italian actor, director and essayist. References 1930s births 2020 deaths People from Anzio Italian essayists Male essayists 20th-century Italian male actors 21st-century Italian ...

as primo fratello di Alvaro * Leo Garavaglia as secondo fratello di Alvaro * Giuseppe Recagno as dipendente Pompe Funebri *

Erminio Spalla Erminio Spalla (7 July 1897 – 14 August 1971) was an Italian professional heavyweight Boxer (boxing), boxer, film actor and singer. Spalla studied fine arts in Brera (district of Milan), Brera, when in 1910 he saw film footage of the world box ...

as L'Autista *

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as Laura

References

Bibliography

* Moliterno, Gino. ''Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

* 1950 films 1950s Italian-language films 1950 comedy films Films directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Italian comedy films Italian black-and-white films 1950s Italian films Films based on Bluebeard {{1950s-Italy-comedy-film-stub