Amerigo Armando Gilberto Govi (; 22 October 1885 – 28 April 1966) was an

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film and stage

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and

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. He was the founder of the Genoese Dialectal Theatre. Among his greatest successes were (, "How to marry off one's daughter"), ''Pignasecca e Pignaverde'' ("Dry Pinecone and Green Pinecone") and ''Colpi di Timone'' ("Rudder blows"). Also famous in

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, especially

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and

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, are ''Quello bonanima'' ("The one who had a good soul"), ''Gildo Peragallo, ingegnere'' ("Gildo Peragallo, engineer"), ''I Gustavino e i Passalacqua'' ("The Gustavinos and the Passalacquas") and ''Sotto a chi tocca'' ("Who's next?").

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