Mamma mia, che impressione! (1951)


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Post by PeplumParadise » 31/03/2023, 16:03

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Director

Roberto Savarese

Storyline

Alberto is effortlessly annoying, but nevertheless loved by his friends. He is infatuated with Margherita, but he has competition for her affections from handsome sportsman Arturo. When other means have failed to get her attention, Alberto resorts to competing against Arturo in a marathon race.

Cast

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Post by PeplumParadise » 31/03/2023, 16:51

Cast

Actors credited in the Italian version, in credit order. Roles are identified from the credits.

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Alberto Sordi
as Alberto

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Giovanna Pala
as La signorina Margherita

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Carlo Giustini
as Arturo

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Frank Colson
as Don Isidoro

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Fausto Guerzoni
as The crib salesman

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Luigi Pavese
as The competition judge

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Checco Rissone
(credited as "Francesco Rissone")
as Man with the pannini

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Vinicio Sofia
as L'energumeno
He is credited as playing "The energetic", but this is rather confusing and misleading as he is actually the man taking bookings for the race in the gym.

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Riccardo Bertazzolo
as The Lifeguard

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Alberto D'Amario
(credited as "Alberto Damario")
as Colonel Pisacane

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Carlo Delle Piane
as Triangle Head

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Franco Randisi
as L'antipatico, translates as "The Obnoxious"
Unidentified

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Marco Tulli
as Ortelli

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Aldo Trifiletti
as Gualandri
Unidentified
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Post by PeplumParadise » 31/03/2023, 17:35

Uncredited actors A-Z

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Sonia Balabin
as Woman beside Don Isidoro at the marathon

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Carlo Bomba
as Marathon competitor

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Rainero De Cenzo
as Race official

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"Dr. Mabuse"
as Man who gives up his seat on the bus

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Luciano Freddi
as Vincenzini

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Franco Jamonte
as Race official

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"Leone Lookalike"
as Butcher

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Maria Mannelli
as Bus passenger

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Furio Meniconi
as Boxer in the gym

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Mimmo Poli
as Arturo's coach and driver

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Amerigo Santarelli
as Man in Arturo's team

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Roberto Spiombi
as Neighbour of Alberto

Uncredited actors listed as appearing by other sources
Vittorio De Sica - IMDb. Nowhere to be seen.
Toni Di Carlo - ANICA
Liliana Farkas - ANICA
Dina Romano - ANICA as Perpetua di don Isidoro. The only woman who seems to have anything at all to do with Don Isidoro is the character played by Sonia Balabin, so presumably either the identification or the role is incorrect.
Aldo Ronconi - ANICA
Aldo Trisielli - ANICA
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Post by PeplumParadise » 31/03/2023, 17:40

Unidentified actors

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Post by PeplumParadise » 31/03/2023, 17:48

Unidentified actors

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Unidentified actors

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Post by PeplumParadise » 31/03/2023, 19:00

The 2 unidentified credited actors are proving problematic. Theoretically with roles listed in the credits they should be easy to identify, particularly as they are both in a sub-section of the credits titled "i compagnucci" (the companions), meaning they should be people affiliated with Alberto, which rules out half the cast.

Franco Randisi has no other known credits and his role description as "the obnoxious" is not of much help in a film where most of the characters could fit under this description!

Aldo Trifiletti is credited as "Gualandri", which I assume would be a character name, but I listened carefully and did not hear any characters called by this name. It does at least rule out at least 5 of the unidentified actors who have character names. Trifiletti has one other known credit in I soliti ignoti (1958). IMDb has him identified in that film as the actor below, which is repeated on several other sites, however I don't see anyone here who seems to be the same actor, so I suspect that is probably a mis-identification.
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Post by PeplumParadise » 31/03/2023, 19:17

The officer in the cap on the right in 102 / 103 could maybe be Roberto Spiombi, listed by ANICA?

The officer on the left in the helmet in the same images reminds me of Omero Gargano, but since Gargano's known career didn't commence until 10 years later this seems unlikely.

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Post by PeplumParadise » 31/03/2023, 22:48

ANICA lists Rainero De Cenzo as playing "Scopino", which I think it's safe to assume translates as "Sweep" since I didn't see anyone playing a Toilet Brush! If by "Sweep" they mean road sweeper, then he would be the actor in image 1, who is indeed referred to by Sordi as "Scopino". ANICA and IMDb both spell his name Raniero, but in the 3 credited roles below they all spell it as Rainero.

I now have 2 further ID's for De Cenzo, in both of which he is helpfully credited with roles, so we can be sure of the ID's. This ID for De Cenzo is from Anni difficili (1948), where he is credited as playing Doctor "Rapisarda".
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In La roccia incantata (1949) he plays the role of "The Judge", however the quality of the only copy I found is rather awful, so it is of little help identifying him, though from the profile and hairline I think it is clearly the same actor as above.
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We previously failed to identify De Cenzo in our project for L'oro di Roma, where ANICA lists him as playing the "Chief Rabbi", largely due to the actor playing the sweep in Mamma mia, che impressione! not matching the most obvious candidate for that role. With the new ID's above I'm not entirely convinced that this is him playing the chief rabbi, but I checked the other old images from L'oro di Roma and there is no-one else who seems at all like him, so I think it probably must be. He certainly aged a lot in the 12 years between the films.
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And so to the reason we're here, the role of the sweep. I'm afraid to say that in my opinion there is no way this man is the same as in any of the images above, the features, particularly the nose, seem completely different. What do others think?
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Post by FatmanDan » 31/03/2023, 22:52

Your arguments are logical, and the Sweeper guy surely is not the same man as the one shown in the other films.

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