''But It's Nothing Serious'' (Italian: ''Ma non è una cosa seria'') is a 1936 Italian "
white-telephones"
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typic ...
film directed by
Mario Camerini and starring
Vittorio De Sica,
Elisa Cegani and
Assia Noris
Assia Noris (16 February 1912 – 27 January 1998) was a Russian-Italian film actress.
Born Anastasia Noris fon Gerzfeld (Anastassia Noris von Herzfeld), she appeared in over 35 films between 1932 and 1965.
She starred in films such as the Mar ...
.
[Cardullo p.268] It is based on a play by
Luigi Pirandello. Two years later Camerini remade it as a German film ''
The Man Who Couldn't Say No''.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director Gastone Medin
Gastone Medin (1905–1973) was an Italian art director.Anile p.132 He worked on more than a hundred and fifty films during his career.
Selected filmography
* ''Figaro and His Great Day'' (1931)
* ''Lowered Sails'' (1931)
* ''The Table of the Po ...
. It was shot at the studios of
Caesar Film
Caesar Film was an Italian film production and distribution company founded in 1913. The studio's owner Giuseppe Barattolo built it into one of the more successful silent film companies of the 1910s, thanks partly to signing up the diva Francesca ...
in
Rome
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, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus ( legendary)
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.
Cast
*
Vittorio De Sica as Memmo Speranza
*
Elisa Cegani as Gasperina
*
Umberto Melnati
Umberto Melnati (17 June 1897 – 30 March 1979) was an Italian film actor
He appeared in over 35 films between 1932 and 1962.
He starred in films such as the Mario Mattoli 1936 film '' L'uomo che sorride'' and ''Il signor Max'' (1937). He ...
as Vico Lamanna
*
Assia Noris
Assia Noris (16 February 1912 – 27 January 1998) was a Russian-Italian film actress.
Born Anastasia Noris fon Gerzfeld (Anastassia Noris von Herzfeld), she appeared in over 35 films between 1932 and 1965.
She starred in films such as the Mar ...
as Loletta Festa
*
Elsa De Giorgi as Elsa
*
Ugo Ceseri
Ugo Ceseri (30 June 1893 – 3 December 1940) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in forty two films between 1931 and his death in 1940. In 1934 he appeared in the play '' 18 BL'', an attempt to create a mass theatre by the Fascist g ...
as Barranco
*
Vivi Gioi as Matilde
*
Giuseppe Pierozzi as Un pensionnaire
*
Maria Arcione
*
Celeste Calza
*
Jole Capodaglio
*
Antonio Centa
*
Mario Ferrari
Mario Ferrari (September 3, 1894 – June 28, 1974) was an Italian film actor. After making his debut in 1920, Ferrari became a mainstay of Italian cinema during the Fascist era appearing in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He pla ...
*
Giuliana Gianni
*
Zoe Incrocci
*
Carola Lotti
*
Dina Romano
*
Lia Rosa
*
Nietta Zocchi
See also
*''
But It Isn't Serious'' (1921)
References
Bibliography
* Bert Cardullo. ''Screening the Stage: Studies in Cinedramatic Art''. Peter Lang, 2006.
External links
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1936 films
Italian romantic comedy films
1936 romantic comedy films
1930s Italian-language films
Films directed by Mario Camerini
Films based on works by Luigi Pirandello
Italian films based on plays
Italian black-and-white films
Sound film remakes of silent films
1930s Italian films
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