Miseria e Nobiltà

Miseria e Nobiltà
Directed by	Mario Mattoli
Produced by	Carlo Ponti, Dino De Laurentis
Written by	Ruggero Maccari
Based on	A comedy of Eduardo Scarpetta
Release date(s)	1954
Running time	95 min
Country	Italy

Cast

Totò: (Felice Sciosciammocca), Dolores Palumbo: (Luisella), Enzo Turco: (Pasquale), Valeria Moriconi: (Pupella), Franca Faldini: (Nadia), Liana Billi: (Concetta), Franco Sportelli: (Vincenzo), Gianni Cavalieri: (don Gaetano), Sophia Loren: (Gemma), Carlo Croccolo: (Luigino), Giuseppe Porelli: ("Bebè"), Franco Pastorino: (il marchesino Eugenio), Franco Melidoni: (Peppeniello), Giulia Melidoni: (Bettina), Enzo Petito: (don Gioacchino), Dino Curcio: (Biase), Nino Di Napoli, Nicola Maldacea jr.

Summary

Felice Sciosciammocca (Totò) is a penniless populated by 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).

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), 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.

References

• Eduardo Scarpetta
• Miseria e Nobiltà (comedy)
• Miseria e Nobiltà (film 1914)
• Miseria e Nobiltà (film 1940)

External links

• Miseria e Nobiltà at the Internet Movie Database