Poverty and Nobility

Poverty and Nobility (Miseria e nobiltà)
File:Miseria e nobiltà.jpg Film poster
Directed by	Mario Mattoli
Produced by	Dino De Laurentiis Carlo Ponti
Written by	Ruggero Maccari Mario Mattoli (dialogues)
Story by	Eduardo Scarpetta (play)
Starring	Totò Enzo Turco Sophia Loren Carlo Croccolo
Music by	Pippo Barzizza
Cinematography	Karl Struss Luciano Trasatti
Edited by	Renato Cinquini
Distributed by	Lux Film
Release dates	8 April 1954 (1954-04-08)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Poverty and Nobility (Italian: Miseria e nobiltàcode: it is deprecated ) is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.

Plot

The story is taken from the Eduardo Scarpetta's play:

Naples, 1800. The poor Felice Sciosciamocca tries to work being a scribe for illiterate people, while his friend Don Pasquale tries to make photographs for rich couples. Meanwhile in the house where the two live, their wives start to fight because the apartment is mortgaged, and the women don't have money to pay the rent. Luckily, rich Count Luigino, in love with the beautiful dancer Gemma, asks Pasquale and Felice to stage a farce for him. In fact, the parents of Gemma want to meet Luigino's family, but he knows that his real father does not approve of his love affair with the dancer. So Luigino transforms Don Felice Sciosciamocca into his uncle: the Prince of Casadores, and Don Pasquale has to play the true father of Luigino. The young count entrusts a false part to each of the members of the two families, except the second wife of Felice: Concetta. Unfortunately Count Luigino cannot find a role for her, and Concetta gets very angry. While Felice Sciosciammocca and Pasquale are arguing in the beautiful villa of Don Gaetano, who is Gemma's father, Concetta bursts into the home, and tries to compromise the plan organized by Luigino. Fortunately Don Felice manages to fix the situation and in the end, all is happily resolved.

Cast

• Totò: Felice Sciosciammocca
• Dolores Palumbo: Luisella
• Enzo Turco: Pasquale
• Valeria Moriconi: Pupella
• Franca Faldini: Nadia
• Liana Billi: Concetta
• Franco Sportelli: Vincenzo
• Gianni Cavalieri: Don Gaetano
• Sophia Loren: Gemma
• Carlo Croccolo: Luigino
• Giuseppe Porelli: Marquis Ottavio aka "Bebè"
• Enzo Petito: Don Gioacchino

External links

• "Poverty and nobility" 1954 by Mario Mattoli
• Poverty and Nobility at IMDb