''My First Forty Years'' ( it, I miei primi 40 anni, also known as ''My Wonderful Life'') is a 1987 Italian

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directed by

Carlo Vanzina Carlo Vanzina (13 March 1951 – 8 July 2018) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. Vanzina was born in Rome, the son of Maria Teresa Nati and film director Stefano Vanzina and brother of Enrico Vanzina. In English-speakin ...

and starring

Carol Alt Carol Ann Alt (born December 1, 1960) is an American model and actress. Early life Alt was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, the daughter of Muriel, an airline employee and model, and Anthony Alt, a fire chief in the Bronx. She was noticed wai ...

, Elliott Gould and Jean Rochefort. It is loosely based on the autobiography of Marina Ripa Di Meana.

Plot

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late 1980s. Determined not to remain an unknown woman, Marina gives rise to fame going from one room to another bed, from one scandal to another. She married a penniless duke then loves a journalist, an artist and a politician.

Cast

as Marina Caracciolo * Elliott Gould as Nino Ranuzzi * Jean Rochefort as Prince Riccio * Pierre Cosso as Duke Massimiliano Caracciolo Villalta * Capucine as Princess Caracciolo Villalta *

Teo Teocoli Antonio "Teo" Teocoli (born 25 February 1945) is an Italian actor, TV conductor, singer and writer appearing in about 30 mostly Italian productions since 1975. Selected filmography * ''Paolo e Francesca'' (1971) * '' The Boss and the Worke ...

as Franco Bonetti *

Isabel Russinova Isabel Russinova ( bg, Изабел Русинова; born 20 January 1958) is a Bulgarian-born Italian actress, producer and television personality. Biography Born in Sofia as Maria Isabella Cociani, Russinova came to the success in 1983 wit ...

as Doris Caetani *

Paola Quattrini Paola Quattrini (born 9 March 1944) is an Italian actress. Career She debuted as child actor in ''Il bacio di una morta'' (1949). From then she started a very long career between stage, film and television, starring in hundreds of productions. I ...

as Marina's Mother * Riccardo Garrone as Marina's Father *

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as Rodolfo Merisi * Massimo Venturiello as Roberto D'Angelo * Giuseppe Pambieri as Carlo Donati Dadda * Martine Brochard as Marquise Caetani *

Carlo Monni Carlo Monni (23 October 1943 – 19 May 2013) was an Italian film, television and stage actor. Born in Campi Bisenzio, Florence, Monni started his artistic activity in early seventies, as an actor in the Tuscan vernacular comic theater. Afte ...

as The Proprietor

References

External links

* 1987 comedy films 1987 films Films directed by Carlo Vanzina Italian comedy films Italian biographical films 1980s Italian-language films Cultural depictions of Italian women 1980s Italian films {{1980s-Italy-comedy-film-stub