''The Lady Is Fickle'' ( it, La donna è mobile ) is a 1942 Italian

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

directed by

Mario Mattoli Mario Mattoli (; 30 November 1898 – 26 February 1980) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 86 films between 1934 and 1966. His 1939 film ''Defendant, Stand Up!'' was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy ...

and starring

Ferruccio Tagliavini Ferruccio Tagliavini (; 14 August 191329 January 1995) was an Italian operatic tenor mainly active in the 1940s and 1950s. Tagliavini was hailed as the heir apparent to Tito Schipa and Beniamino Gigli in the lyric-opera repertory due to the excep ...

, Fioretta Dolfi and

Carlo Campanini Carlo Campanini (5 October 1906 – 20 November 1984), was an Italian actor, singer and comedian. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1939 and 1969. Life and career Born in Turin, Campanini attended a technical school and a course of ...

.Nowell-Smith & Ricci p.79 It was shot at the

Cinecittà Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City Studios), is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios we ...

Studios in

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

Piero Filippone Piero Filippone (1911–1998) was an Italian art director who designed the sets for around two hundred films. He created the sets for Roberto Rossellini's 1954 film '' Journey to Italy''.Brunette p.416 Selected filmography * '' Three Cornered H ...

Plot

A poor village teacher has ambitions to be a great singer.

Cast

as Ferruccio Landini * Fioretta Dolfi as Rosetta *

as Cristoforo *

Carlo Micheluzzi Carlo Micheluzzi (1886–1973) was an Italian stage and film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such ...

as Il commendator Carlo *Dora Bini as Isabella *

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 Il direttore della scuola *

Rosina Anselmi Rosina Anselmi ( 26 July 1880 – 23 May 1965) was an Italian stage, television and film actress. She was a prominent actress in the Sicilian language theater, especially in the province of Catania. Life and career Born in Caltagirone, Cata ...

as Sua moglie *Nucci Bagnani as La sorellina di Rosetta *

Galeazzo Benti Galeazzo Benti (6 August 1923 – 21 April 1993) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1942 and 1991. Life and career Born Galeazzo Bentivoglio in Florence, Italy, a descendant of the Bentivoglio family, which rul ...

as Un giovanetto al teatro *Agnese Dubbini as La cuoca *Leo Micheluzzi as Il maggiordomo *Giuliana Pitti as Luisella, sorella di Rosetta *

Agostino Salvietti Agostino Salvietti (28 August 1882 - 2 December 1967) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1924 to 1964. Filmography References External links * 1882 births 1967 deaths Italian male film actors {{It ...

as Il cuoco *Margherita Seglin as La madre di Rosetta *

Ciro Berardi Ciro Berardi (1909–1961) was an Italian actor.Bìspuri p.51 Selected filmography * '' Light in the Darkness'' (1941) * ''Lucky Night'' (1941) * ''Street of the Five Moons'' (1942) * ''After Casanova's Fashion'' (1942) * '' Love Story'' (1942) * ...

Alberto Capozzi Alberto Capozzi (8 July 1886 – 27 June 1945) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1908 and 1945. Selected filmography * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1913) * ''The Open Door'' ( 1914 film) (La porta aperta) * ' ...

Totò Mignone Ottone "Totò" Mignone (1906–1993) was an Italian dancer and actor of the stage and film.Kezich p.286 He was the elder brother of the actress and singer Milly. Selected filmography * ''Five to Nil'' (1932) * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1942 ...

References

Bibliography

*Geoffrey Nowell-Smith & Steven Ricci. ''Hollywood and Europe: Economics, Culture, National Identity, 1945-95''. BFI Publishing, 1998.

External links

* 1942 comedy films 1942 films Films directed by Mario Mattoli Films shot at Cinecittà Studios Italian black-and-white films Italian comedy films 1940s Italian-language films 1940s Italian films {{1940s-Italy-comedy-film-stub