''The Peddler and the Lady'' (Italian title: ''Campo de' fiori'') is a 1943 Italian

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directed by

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and starring

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and

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.Reich & Garofalo p.101 Much of the film is set on the

Campo de' Fiori Campo de' Fiori (, literally "field of flowers") is a rectangular square south of Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy, at the border between rione Parione and rione Regola. It is diagonally southeast of the Palazzo della Cancelleria and one block north ...

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where Elide a

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is in love with a

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who works nearby, but he is more interested in another woman.

Cast

as Peppino Corradini *

as Elsa Bianchini *

as Elide *

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as Aurelio * Cristiano Cristiani as Il piccolo Carletto *

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as Olga *

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as Rosa, la domestica di Olga *

Guglielmo Barnabò Guglielmo Barnabò (11 May 1888 – 31 May 1954) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1926 and 1954. Life and career Born in Ancona, Barnabò made his stage debut in 1921 at the Greek Theatre of ...

as Il signore grasso sul treno *

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as Sor Eugenio *

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as L'uomo che chiede le alicette *

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as La suora del carcere *

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as Peppa, la portiera *

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as Leila, la giocatrice al tavolo di baccarat *

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as La balia *

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as La domestica venuta al mercato *

Enrico Luzi Enrico Luzi (27 September 1919 – 18 October 2011) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1941 to 1980. Selected filmography References External links * 1919 births 2011 deaths Italian male film actors ...

as Un giocatore al tavolo di baccarat *

Alfredo Martinelli Alfredo Martinelli (7 March 1899 – 11 November 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 103 films between 1916 and 1967. He was born and died in Siena, Tuscany. Selected filmography * ''I Topi Grigi'' (1918) * ''Tortured Soul'' (1 ...

as Un giocatore al tavolo di baccarat *

Guido Morisi Guido is a given name Latinised from the Old High German name Wido. It originated in Medieval Italy. Guido later became a male first name in Austria, Germany, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and Switzerland. The mea ...

as Giorgio *

Pina Piovani Pina Piovani (20 March 1897 – 2 January 1955) was an Italian stage and film actress.Bìspuri p.126 She was married to the actor Giulio Battiferri. Partial filmography * ''Napule... e niente cchiù'' (1928) - Paquita - stella del varietá * ' ...

as Una popolana ai mercanti generali * Checco Rissone as Giovanni *

Gioconda Stari ''La Gioconda'' is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito (as Tobia Gorrio), based on ''Angelo, Tyrant of Padua'', a 1835 play in prose by Victor Hugo (the same source Gaetano Rossi had used for h ...

as La domestica del nuovo appartamento *

Gianrico Tedeschi Gianrico Tedeschi (20 April 1920 – 27 July 2020) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Milan in April 1920, Tedeschi got a degree in pedagogy before enrolling at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art, wh ...

as Un giocatore al tavolo di baccarat *

Saro Urzì Rosario "Saro" Urzì (24 February 1913 – 1 November 1979) was an Italian actor. He is best known for his roles in the films '' In the Name of the Law'' (1949), '' The Railroad Man'' (1956), '' Seduced and Abandoned'' (1964), which earned him ...

References

Bibliography

* Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. ''Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943''. Indiana University Press, 2002.

External links

* 1943 films Italian comedy films 1943 comedy films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Mario Bonnard Italian black-and-white films Films with screenplays by Marino Girolami Films shot in Rome 1940s Italian films {{1940s-Italy-comedy-film-stub