L'oro di Napoli - Pizze a credito
by Vittorio De Sica
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FILMING
LOCATIONS
Via Materdei, Naples Filming
dates: February - March 1954 Sophia Loren ( |
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CREDITS Photography: Carlo Montuori Music: Alessandro Cicognini Costume design: Pia Marchesi Still photographer: Sergio Strizzi Production: Ponti - De Laurentiis (Rome) |
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NOTES
The film is made up of six episodes. The others are: Il guappo (The Racketeer) with Totò; Funeralino (The Little Funeral); I giocatori (The Gamblers) with Vittorio De Sica; Teresa with Silvana Mangano; Il professore (The Professor) with Eduardo De Filippo. The segment Funeralino was deleted from all release versions, and the short segment on Il professore only appeared in the original Italian version. Italian DVD prints now have all episodes. The American dubbed version is called Every Day's a Holiday. The twenty-minute episode is memorable for a scene of Sophia strutting through the neighborhood during a rainstorm, with her drenched dress clinging to her body, her bosoms bouncing and her eyes flashing at every man she passes. And as it happens, Sophia catches bronchial pneumonia from the artificial downpours during a cold February month in Sophia
is terrorized with the idea of being directed by one of the
greatest Italian filmmakers and, for the first and last time in her
life, she
drinks up two cognacs prior to her first scene on the first day of
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QUOTES
AND REVIEWS "A
revelation. She was created differently, behaved differently, affected
me
differently, from any other woman I have known. I looked at that face,
those unbelievable
eyes, and saw it all as a miracle. (...) The outstanding quality was
her
impulsiveness. Neapolitans are extroverts. All her gestures and
statements were
always outgoing. Nothing is held inside. No internal reflection. I
don't say
this only of Sophia, all we Neapolitans are the same. We improvise. We
speak
first, think later. The women are not particularly elegant. In fact
they
generally have bad taste in clothes. They go by instinct. With Sophia,
in her
private life, in her love, in her work and in her passions, she is
always
instinctive, never calculating."
Vittorio De Sica in Donald Zec's book Sophia: An intimate biography. "From
the first day De Sica became my school, my teacher, my mentor, my
everything. Every day he would arrive on the set and say, 'Ah, Sophia cara,
it's so beautiful to see you first thing in the morning, you make my
day!' I
couldn't have found anyone better to be with me in the beginning of my
career." "She
knew that Gold of Naples, under de Sica's direction, could
take her out of the two-bit movies into the international scene. She
went on
the set shaking with terror. And de Sica knew it. He placed both his
hands over
hers. "Listen, there's nothing to worry about. Don't act. I show
you." He did not direct her. He wooed a performance from her. That
seductive technique was to continue for seven more pictures. A flawless
fusion
of talents." "I
managed to uncover the crucial element of her personality: Sophia had
erected a wall around herself, around that deep, secret part of her
that her
emotions rendered more vulnerable. She had a habit of hiding behind
that wall
and she liked it there. But her real nature was dramatic and volatile,
typically Neapolitan, and her reactions - joy, sorrow, anger,
impatience,
everything - were excessive. So she kept them well hidden behind that
wall. But
when she performed, she could climb over that wall and liberate her
real,
profound emotions. She was capable of shouting, laughing, being
hysterical, seducing,
arguing, reaching very high emotional peak." "You
are a natural force. Respond with your entire body. Every bit of you
must count, including the tips of your little fingers." |
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