Two Million for a Smile
- Carlo Borghesio
- Mario Soldati
- Carlo Borghesio
- Renato Castellani
- Mario Soldati
- Enrico Viarisio
- Giuseppe Porelli
- Elsa De Giorgi
company
- 7 August 1939 (1939-08-07)
Two Million for a Smile (Italian: Due milioni per un sorriso) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Carlo Borghesio and Mario Soldati and starring Enrico Viarisio, Giuseppe Porelli and Elsa De Giorgi.[1]
It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gino Brosio.
Synopsis
An Italian industrialist who has made a fortune in America returns to Italy planning to make a film about a beautiful woman who smiled at him before he left his home country years before. With the assistance of a man who resembles his younger self he sets out to find the perfect woman for the role.
Cast
- Enrico Viarisio as Mister Giacomo Perotti / Martino Bo
- Giuseppe Porelli as Spinelli, il segretario
- Elsa De Giorgi as Maria
- Sandra Ravel as Lisetta
- Romolo Costa as Il barista
- Dhia Cristiani as Piera
- Lauro Gazzolo as L'ufficiale giudiziario
- Pina Renzi as La guarderobiera
- Ermanno Roveri as Il banchista / il regista
- Giuseppe Pierozzi as Il cuoco / il truccatore
- Vasco Creti as Il capotreno
- Guido Barbarisi as L'elettricista / il capocameriere
- Carlo Bressan as L'autista del furgoncino
- Maria Polese as La padrona della copisteria
- Raimondo Van Riel as L'oste
- Carlo Ranieri as Il primo cameriere / l'operatore
- Antonietta Vilella as La fanciulla dell'organino
- Livia Minelli as Un'attrice
References
- ^ Curti p.22
Bibliography
- Roberto Curti. Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker. McFarland, 2017.
External links
- Two Million for a Smile at IMDb
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