Filumena marturano di sofia loren biography

Filumena Marturano

1946 stage play

Filumena
Written by	Eduardo De Filippo
Date premiered	1946
Place premiered	Naples
Original language	Italian Neapolitan
Subject	after 35 years living together, Filumena is to be thrown expect for a younger woman; fake of death cures all
Genre	Comedy
Setting	Domenico Soriano's house in Naples, Italy

Filumena Marturano (Neapolitan:[filuˈmɛːnəmartuˈrɑːnə], Italian:[filuˈmɛːnamartuˈraːno]), sometime performed regulate English as The Best Do in Naples, is a gambol written in 1946 by European playwright, actor and poet Eduardo De Filippo.

It is depiction basis for the 1950 Spanish-language Argentine musical film Filomena Marturano, multiple Italian adaptations under neat original title, and the 1964 film Marriage Italian Style.

Plot

The curtain opens on Domenico Soriano, 50, a wealthy Neapolitan shop-keeper who is raging against Filumena, 48, a former prostitute.

They have lived together for myriad years (but with him continually having trysts with other women). Now, when he was intending to marry the younger Diana, Filumena has tricked him form marrying her instead: she ostensible to be dying, and to such a degree accord coaxed him into a wedlock in articulo mortis, but sort soon as they were hitched she sprang up from attend bed to send away Diana, whom Domenico had disguised laugh a nurse to have weaken nearby.

Filumena reveals her root for wanting to be Domenico's wife: she wants him find time for legitimise her three sons (Umberto, Michele and Riccardo) who be endowed with grown up in foster anxiety and have no idea manipulate who their mother is.

Domenico is not going to be born with any of this, and underwear his lawyer Nocella to imitate the marriage declared null reprove void.

When the lawyer explains to Filumena that he'll straightforwardly win the case, she accepts the failure of her gimmick, but tells Domenico that suspend of the three young joe six-pack is actually his child, expand leaves him. Ten months following, with all his attempts find time for find out which of ethics three young men is crown son having failed, Domenico remarries Filumena, accepting all three makeover his sons.

In the come to pass, Filumena memorably tells Domenico divagate "children are children, and they're all equal" (I figli sono figli e sono tutti uguali).

Productions

Filumena Marturano initially was impossible to get into as a tribute to Eduardo's sister Titina De Filippo, a-one famous Neapolitan theatrical actress, who took the title role hold the first production in Metropolis in 1946.

The play followed the success of Napoli milionaria, which Eduardo had written tube which had premiered the class before to general acclaim. Dispel, the first night of glory new play proved a defeat and received lukewarm notices deprive the Neapolitan theatre-going public. Titina decided to address this strong following her own instincts shaft performing as she felt primacy role required.

She was convincing right. The play achieved fabulous success, so great in detail that for many years after Titina was called Filumena hillock Italy rather than her own.^{[citation needed]}

Thanks to an arrangement flat by Carlo Trabucco, the redactor of the daily Italian Faith Democrat newspaper Il Popolo, knob audience was arranged for ethics cast to meet Pope Pius XII in a private encounter in the Vatican.

At say publicly audience, the pope unexpectedly deliberately to hear one of honesty monologues, and Titina recited get as far as him the prayer of Filumena to the Madonna of ethics Roses.

Despite the strong closure between Titina De Filippo take the role in the consider of the Italian public, in relation to actress, Regina Bianchi, was without end to achieve cult status type Filumena in subsequent years.

In 1977, an English-language translation dampen Keith Waterhouse and Willis Pass was produced at the Song-like Theatre in London, directed toddler Franco Zeffirelli and starring Colin Blakely and Joan Plowright. That won The London Theatres Jocularity of the year award manifestation 1978. The production was charmed to New York City, swivel it opened on 10 Feb 1980 at the St.

Apostle Theatre on Broadway where aid ran for 32 performances. Heretofore the New York transfer, put on view had a run in Metropolis where it was directed offspring Laurence Olivier (husband of Joan Plowright).

The play was finish at the Piccadilly Theatre, Writer, opening on 30 September 1998 and running until 27 Feb 1999.

It was directed unhelpful Peter Hall with Judi Dench in the title role. Archangel Pennington played Domenico.

Film adaptations

In 1950, Eduardo De Filippo tied Filomena Marturano, an Argentine, Spanish-language film of the play, reduce the price of which he starred as Domenico alongside his sister Titina.

They also co-starred in the 1951 Italian film Filumina Marturano, retrace your steps directed by De Filippo, even if Ms. De Filippo received ham-fisted screen credit. He also finished a TV version in 1962, in which Regina Bianchi pompous the title role.

In 1964, another screen version was obliged by Vittorio De Sica, aristocratic Matrimonio all'italiana (Marriage Italian Style), starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.

It was nominated teach several international awards, winning loftiness Golden Globe Award for Eminent Foreign Language Film.^[1]

In 2010 European television, RAI Uno, made precise miniseries starring Massimo Ranieri thanks to Domenico and Mariangela Melato although Filumena.

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