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Totò

Totò

Prince Antonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno De Curtis di Bisanzio Gagliardi, best known by his stage name Totò and nicknamed il principe della risata was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter...

: (Felice Sciosciammocca), Dolores Palumbo: (Luisella), Enzo Turco

Enzo Turco

Enzo Turco or Enzo Turk was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 39 films between 1939 and 1972.He was born in Florence, Italy and died in Bracciano, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Partenza ore 7...

: (Pasquale), Valeria Moriconi

Valeria Moriconi

Valeria Moriconi was an Italian actress who appeared both in movies and on stage....

: (Pupella), Franca Faldini: (Nadia), Liana Billi: (Concetta), Franco Sportelli: (Vincenzo), Gianni Cavalieri: (don Gaetano), Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance...

: (Gemma), Carlo Croccolo

Carlo Croccolo

Carlo Croccolo is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in over 100 films since 1949. He was born in Naples, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Bellezze in bicicletta * Totò sceicco * Vendetta.....

: (Luigino), Giuseppe Porelli: ("Bebè"), Franco Pastorino: (il marchesino Eugenio), Franco Melidoni: (Peppeniello), Giulia Melidoni: (Bettina), Enzo Petito

Enzo Petito

Enzo Petito , born Vincenzo Squatriti, was a Spanish film actor of Italian descent who has appeared in film in the 1960s...

: (don Gioacchino), Dino Curcio: (Biase), Nino Di Napoli, Nicola Maldacea jr.

Summary

Felice Sciosciammocca (Totò

Totò

Prince Antonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno De Curtis di Bisanzio Gagliardi, best known by his stage name Totò and nicknamed il principe della risata was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter...

) is a penniless populated by Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

, which lives by the day by writing and sharing the house with his son Peppiniello, the companion Luis (Dolores Palumbo ), his friend Pasquale (Enzo lo Turco), a professional street photographer, accompanied by the wife Concetta (Liana Billi) and his daughter Pupella (Valeria Moriconi

Valeria Moriconi

Valeria Moriconi was an Italian actress who appeared both in movies and on stage....

).

One day the Marquis Eugene (Franco Pastorino) knocks at their door asking for a favor: he is in love with the beautiful Gemma (Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance...

), a professional dancer, but her family opposed the union because she is not noble. The girl's father instead, Don Gaetano, a former chef became very rich after inheriting the property of his master, he is happy to allow the relationship because intermarry with the noble would be his dream, but pretend to know the parents of the young. The Marquis and then asks Happy Easter with his wife and daughter to dress up and pretend to be his noble family and to stand with him at the home of Gemma. The situation is complicated because Peppiniello (Franco Melidoni), fed up with accusations of his stepmother, and above all driven by hunger, went to work as maids in their house of Don Gaetano, who works with his partner Vincent, acting Butler, who agreed to keep him pretending to be her son.
Don Gaetano not aware of the staging, and not only gave his daughter's hand but he can (of course with ease) to get the "privilege" of having the noble family of the Marquis at lunch, which also participates Luigino ( Carlo Croccolo), his son, in love with Pupella.

But the twists are imminent; woman Bettina (Giulia Melidoni), Gemma's personal maid, is the wife of Felix, who left years before, tired of his infidelities. Happy he makes peace with Bettina, showing their son Peppiniello after all this time (after I found with surprise that she worked in the house). As if that were not enough women Luis, who had taken part in the fiction, is a surprise, and by arguing with Felice discover the deception.

It will be a twist to resolve the situation: Gemma is courted by the time Mr. Baby (Giuseppe Porelli), which is none other but the Marquis Ottavio Favetti, father of Eugene. The Marquis discovered the double identity of her father and forced him to consent to his engagement to Gemma. So don Gaetano blesses the union between the two young men, as well as that of Luigi and Pupella, and the meeting of Felice and Bettina.