Lucky to Be a Woman
La fortuna di essere donna
Directed by:
Alessandro BlasettiCinematography:
Otello MartelliComposer:
Alessandro CicogniniCast:
Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer, Marcello Mastroianni, Elisa Cegani, Giustino Durano, Memmo Carotenuto, Titina de Filippo, Nino Besozzi, Mario Scaccia (more)Plots(1)
Sophia Loren was twenty-one years old when she starred in this lightly spicy comedy. Antoinette (Loren) is an attractive young woman who is adjusting her stockings one day when a passing news photographer snaps her picture. To Antoinette's shock, the picture appears on the front page of one of Rome's biggest newspapers, and she's angered and embarrassed by the attention; soon, she finds herself fighting off the lustful attentions of Corrado (Marcello Mastroianni), the photographer who turned her into an unwitting cheesecake star, and Count Gregorio (Charles Boyer), a nobleman who tells Antoinette that he can make her a movie star. However, while the Count's attentions have little to do with any real effort to bring her to stardom, in time Corrado finds himself genuinely falling in love with the beautiful Antoinette. (official distributor synopsis)
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I'm willing to give it bit of a better review for Charles Boyer. :) He was everywhere and with every woman... His journey through the 1930s and 1940s was crowned by Harvey, Baarová, Dietrich, Garbo, Lamarr... he had too much to worry about and so it was no wonder that he then took Bergman, Andress, and Loren in this film. Otherwise, it is a classically overwrought idyll on the theme of Sophia and Marcello, which is almost impossible to endure. Because first come Sophie's breasts, then her ass, then her blonde tint, then the rest, and then Marcello takes a picture. The end.
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