The Marquis of Ruvolito

93 minutesCountryItalyLanguageItalian

The Marquis of Ruvolito (Italian: Il marchese di Ruvolito) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino De Filippo and Leda Gloria.^[1] Based on a play of the same title by Nino Martoglio, it is set in Naples during the early 1900s. It is now considered a lost film.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Virgilio Marchi and Italo Tomassi. It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome.

Cast

• Eduardo De Filippo as Il marchese di Ruvolito
• Peppino De Filippo as Il marchese Erasmo di Mezzomondello
• Rosina Anselmi as Donna Placida Cimosata
• Elli Parvo as Immacolata - la figlia di Donna Placida
• Leda Gloria as Lily Gordon
• Virgilio Riento as Don Timurata
• Turi Pandolfini as Neddu Grisi
• Dina Perbellini as La contessa Scoperlati
• Angelo Pelliccioni as Adolfo
• Carla Sveva as Teresina
• Armando Migliari as Il barone di Mezzomondello
• Mercedes Brignone as La baronessa di Mezzomondello
• Adele Mosso as Marianna
• Eduardo Passarelli as Tanu Conti
• Norma Nova as La cameriera
• Tina Pica as Signorina Mangialardo

References

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• The Marquis of Ruvolito at IMDb