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Marriage Italian Style Movie

Marriage Italian Style
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Run Time: 102 min
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Released: 1964
Directors: Vittorio De Sica
Genre/Type: Romance
Comedy Drama
Satire
Romantic Comedy
Melodrama
Producers: Carlo Ponti
Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
In flashback, Marcello Mastroianni recalls his wartime romance with Sophia Loren. He is so enamored with her that he finances her escape from the bordello where she lives and sets her up with a good job in the restaurant that he owns, and later finds a place for her on his mother's domestic staff. He is not, however, enamored enough to make their union legal, and expects Loren to behave like a servant by day and his mistress by night. Years later, Loren lies on her deathbed. The contrite Mastroianni finally consents to marry her. Not only does she make a full recovery, but she brings her three grown sons to live with the nonplused Mastroianni after the wedding. He tries to weasel out of the arrangement, but is mollified by Loren's insistence that all three boys are his sons. Thus, after nearly twenty years' servitude, Loren is at last in a position to call the shots. Sold to American distributors on the basis of Sophia Loren's revealing costumes (some of these absolutely defy the laws of gravity), Marriage Italian Style remains a warm and spicy concoction today, even after years of less expert imitations. The film was based on Filumena Marturano by Eduardo de Filipo.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Sophia Loren Filumena Marturano Sep 20, 1934 in Rome, Italy
Marcello Mastroianni Domenico Soriano Sep 28, 1924 in Fontana Liri, Italy
Aldo Puglisi Alfredo
Marilù Tolo Diane
Pia Lindström Cashier Sep 20, 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden
Giovanni Ridolfi Umberto
Vito Moriconi Riccardo
Generoso Cortini Michele
Raffaello Rossi Bussolo Lawyer
Vincenzo Aita Alfonzo
Vincenza di Capua Mother
Tecla Scarano Rosalie

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