Teresa Venerdì

Teresa Venerdì
File:Teresa Venerdì poster.jpg Film poster
Directed by	Vittorio De Sica
Produced by	Franco Magli
Written by	Ferruccio Biancini
Starring	Vittorio De Sica Adriana Benetti Anna Magnani Irasema Dilián
Music by	Nuccio Fiorda
Cinematography	Mario Albertelli
Edited by	Mario Bonotti
Distributed by	Artisti Associati
Release dates	1941
Running time	79 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Teresa Venerdì is a 1941 Italian comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica.

Plot summary

The film is a comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (Vittorio De Sica) has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend, Loletta Prima (Magnani). After his creditors threaten to sell his belongings, he takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay his debts and ends up engaged to wealthy Lilli, daughter of a mattress tycoon, and chased after by the orphan Teresa Venerdì, while trying to keep his life in order.

Cast

• Vittorio De Sica ... Il dottore Pietro Vignali
• Adriana Benetti ... Teresa Venerdì
• Irasema Dilián ... Lilli Passalacqua
• Guglielmo Barnabò ... Agostino Passalacqua
• Olga Vittoria Gentilli ... Rosa Passalacqua
• Anna Magnani ... Maddalena Tentini/Loretta Prima
• Elvira Betrone ... La direttrice dell'orfanotrofio
• Giuditta Rissone ... L'istitutrice Anna
• Virgilio Riento ... Antonio
• Annibale Betrone ... Umberto Vignali
• Nico Pepe ... Il dottore Pasquale Grosso
• Clara Auteri Pepe ... Giuseppina
• Zaira La Fratta ... Alice
• Alessandra Adari ... L'istitutrice Caterina
• Lina Marengo ... La maestra Ricci

See also

• Rézi Friday (1938)

External links

• Teresa Venerdì at IMDb