Teresa Venerdì is a 1941

1941 in film

The year 1941 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Citizen Kane, consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, was released in 1941.-Top grossing films :-Academy Awards:...

 Italian

Italy

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 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio de Sica

Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

.

Plot summary

The film is a comedy of errors

Comedy of errors

A comedy of errors is a narrative work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone, in which the action usually features a series of comic instances of mistaken identity, and which typically culminates in a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.-Satire and farce:A slight variation of...

 in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio de Sica

Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

) has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend, Loletta Prima (Magnani). After his creditors threaten to sell his belongings, he takes a job as an orphanage

Orphanage

An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them...

 health inspector to pay his debts and ends up engaged to wealthy Lilli, daughter of a mattress tycoon, and chased after by the orphan Teresa Venerdì, while trying to keep his life in order.

Cast

• Vittorio De Sica
  Vittorio de Sica
  Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....
  
   ... Il dottore Pietro Vignali
• Adriana Benetti
  Adriana Benetti
  -Biography:Born in Quacchio, an east-area of Ferrara, Adriana graduated at Istituto Magistrale of her city, to landfall then in Rome, where she was accepted at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia...
  
   ... Teresa Venerdì
• Irasema Dilián
  Irasema Dilián
  Irasema Dilián - Biography:...
  
   ... Lilli Passalacqua
• Guglielmo Barnabò
  Guglielmo Barnabò
  Guglielmo Barnabò was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 99 films between 1926 and 1954.He was born and died in Ancona, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Beauty of the World * Bad Subject...
  
   ... Agostino Passalacqua
• Olga Vittoria Gentilli ... Rosa Passalacqua
• Anna Magnani
  Anna Magnani
  Anna Magnani was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo....
  
   ... Maddalena Tentini/Loretta Prima
• Elvira Betrone ... La direttrice dell'orfanotrofio
• Giuditta Rissone
  Giuditta Rissone
  Giuditta Rissone was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 25 films between 1933 and 1966.She was born in Genoa, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. She was married to director and actor Vittorio De Sica...
  
   ... L'istitutrice Anna
• Virgilio Riento
  Virgilio Riento
  Virgilio Riento was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 108 films between 1936 and 1959.He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Sette giorni all'altro mondo * Il signor Max...
  
   ... Antonio
• Annibale Betrone ... Umberto Vignali
• Nico Pepe
  Nico Pepe
  Nico Pepe was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 89 films between 1936 and 1981.He was born and died in Udine, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Bellezze in bicicletta * Accidents to the Taxes!!...
  
   ... Il dottore Pasquale Grosso
• Clara Auteri Pepe ... Giuseppina
• Zaira La Fratta ... Alice
• Alessandra Adari ... L'istitutrice Caterina
• Lina Marengo ... La maestra Ricci