''Una famiglia impossibile'' (i.e. "An Impossible Family") is a 1940 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring

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, Pina Renzi and

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Plot

A wealthy young woman falls in love with a radio singer without ever having seen him. He forces his strange family (a forgetful father, a mother with ideas of greatness, three sisters with a passion for singing and another who takes care of abandoned children) to go to the EIAR headquarters to be able to meet him.

Cast

as Giovanni Bartolla * Pina Renzi as Cesira Bartolla *

as Edvige Bartolla * Clely Fiamma as Anna Bartolla * Isa Bellini as Marina Bartolla *

Thea Prandi Enrichetta Thea Prandi (25 November 1925 – 8 June 1961), known as Thea Prandi, was an Italian actress and singer who was active in the 1940s and 1950s. She is known for her roles in ''Una famiglia impossibile'' (1940) and '' L'allegro fantasma' ...

as Nerina Bartolla * Wilma Mangini as Malvina Bartolla * Sergio Tofano as The Butler * Alberto Rabagliati as The Radio Singer * Arturo Bragaglia as The Poor Relative *

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as The Director * Paolo Stoppa *

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* Nunzio Filogamo

References

External links

* 1940 comedy films 1940 films Italian comedy films Films directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Films with screenplays by Cesare Zavattini Italian black-and-white films 1940s Italian films 1940s Italian-language films Films scored by Cesare Andrea Bixio {{1940s-Italy-comedy-film-stub