It Was She Who Wanted It!
{{short description|1953 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = It Was She Who Wanted It!
| image = Era_lei_che_lo_voleva_walter_chiari_marino_girolami.jpg
| caption =
| director = Marino Girolami
| producer =Isidoro Broggi
| writer = Marcello Marchesi
Vittorio Metz
| narrator =
| starring = Walter Chiari
Lucia Bosè
Carlo Campanini
| music = Giovanni D'Anzi
Vittorio Mascheroni
| cinematography = Riccardo Pallottini
| editing =Franco Fraticelli
| studio = Excelsa Film
| distributor =Minerva Film
| released = {{Film date|1953|04|01|df=yes}}
| runtime =89 minutes
| country = Italy
| language = Italian
| budget =
}}
It Was She Who Wanted It! (Italian: Era lei che lo voleva!) is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Marino Girolami and starring Walter Chiari, Lucia Bosè and Carlo Campanini.Chiti, Poppi & Lancia p.140 The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti. It involves the emotional bickering between a psychiatrist and a rather brusque boxer.
Plot
After seeing the famous Dinamite boxer in a sports magazine, a girl has visions, seeing in every person she meets the face of the boxer. Her doctor manages to remind her of having met him in a fleeting and unpleasant occasion, but concludes that the visions are the result of her unconscious love for the boxer.
Cast
- Walter Chiari as Walter Martini
- Lucia Bosé as Nausicaa
- Carlo Campanini as Antonio
- Jone Morino as Donna Eva
- Giuseppe Porelli as Comm. Invernaghi
- Carmen de Lirio as Carmen
- Mario Ruspoli as The Cousin Raoul
- Belle Tildy as The Maid at Invernaghi's
- Giovanni D'Anzi as Kid Tartufi
- Rolf Tasna as Dr Rossi
- Enzo Fiermonte as a Puglie
- Ettore Bevilacqua as Galba
- Aldo Spoldi as Franco
- Tiberio Mitri as The Boxer Raoul
- Egisto Peire as Self
- Leone Jacovacci as The Punch-Drunk Boxer
- Carlo Orlandi as Boxer Guest at the Wedding Breakfast
References
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Bibliography
- Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto & Lancia, Enrico. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
- Hennessey, Brendan. Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation. State University of New York Press, 2021.
External links
- {{IMDb title|id =0044592|title =It Was She Who Wanted It!}}
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Category:1950s Italian-language films
Category:Films directed by Marino Girolami
Category:Italian-language comedy films
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