Marriage Italian Style 1964

Marriage Italian Style 1964

Marriage Italian Style (Italian: Matrimonio all’italiana [matriˈmɔːnjo allitaˈljaːna]) is a 1964 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni

 

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The film was adapted by Leonardo Benvenuti, Renato Castellani, Piero De Bernardi, and Tonino Guerra from the play Filumena Marturano by Eduardo De Filippo

 Filumena Marturano had previously been adapted as a 1950 Argentine film

JUST past a recent midnight, when the human and mechanical cacophony, that is Naples has died down, a string of trucks and jeeps began rapidly moving into position in Via Chiala, a central artery in the South Italian port city flanked by tall buildings. Rapidly, almost, silently, bulky film,equipment was unloaded and set up in nearby alieyways, on overhanging bridges and terraces

Just as quickly, word got around that something big was happening in Via Chiaia, and people began rushing up, isolated at first, then in groups

 Neighborhood windows opened and sleepy Neapolitans came out on their balconies, staying to see the show below them

A group of “scugnizzi,” the indomitable children of Naples, sat down along one sidewalk fronting the camera position. A few of them played a busy, local version of poker; others watched, entranced but alert, as a silver‐haired gentleman strolled importantly to and fro imparting Instructions

The gentleman, everyone in Naples knew, was Vittorio DeSica, and he was instructing his cameraman, Roberto Gerardi, on just how he wanted to shoot the next scene of “Marriage, Italian Style,” a Carlo Ponti‐Joseph E. Levine production based on Eduardo DeFilippo’s well‐known play, “Filumena Marturano” and again teaming the director and the stars of the recently successful, “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastrolanni

Among others in the cast of the $3,000,00 Eastmancolor ‐ widescreen enterprise which Embassy will release in most world areas are Ingrid Bergman’s daughter, Pia Lindstrom, Aldo Puglisi and Marilu Tolo

The story, according to a press release, deals with “the romantic antics and matrimonial machination of an ex‐call girl who is determined to marry the man who has been keeping her and thereby give legal names to her three fully grown sons, one of whom—though she adamantly refuses to tell which—has been father by her errant lover

Marriage Italian Style (1964)