Rita the American Girl
{{Infobox film
| name =Rita the American Girl
| image =Rita, la figlia americana.jpg
| caption =
| director =Piero Vivarelli
| producer = Fabrizio Capucci
| writer = Tito Carpi
Bruno Corbucci
| narrator =
| starring = Totò, Rita Pavone
| music = The Rokes: David Norman Shapiro
| cinematography = Emanuele Di Cora
| editing = Enzo Micarelli
| distributor = Titanus
| released = {{Film date|1965}}
| runtime = 101 minutes
| country = Italy
| language = Italian
| budget =
}}
Rita the American Girl ({{langx|it|Rita, la figlia americana}}) is a 1965 Italian "musicarello" film directed by Piero Vivarelli with Totò and Rita Pavone.Fehrenbach & Poiger p.159
Plot
Professor Serafino Benvenuti (Totò) is a classical director of limited talents. He is dismayed at the growing popularity of beat music, which he hears daily from a youth club across the street (whose houseband is The Rokes). Hoping to pass on the classical tradition to the next generation, Benvenuti decides to adopt an orphaned child from Chile, who unexpectedly turns out to be the 18-year-old Rita d’Angelo (Rita Pavone). Rita, however, is more in-tune with the contemporary pop sounds of the day than the classical tradition of her adoptive father, leading to conflict.
Cast
- Totò as Serafino Benvenuti
- Rita Pavone as Rita D'Angelo
- Fabrizio Capucci as Fabrizio Carli
- Lina Volonghi as Greta Wagner
- Umberto D'Orsi as Orazio
- Veronica as Diana
- Shel Shapiro (credited as David Norman Shapiro)
- Mike Shepstone
- Bobby Posner
- Johnny Charlton
References
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Bibliography
- Heide Fehrenbach & Uta G. Poiger. Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan. Berghahn Books, 2000.
External links
- {{IMDb title|id =|title =Rita the American Girl}}
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Category:1960s Italian-language films
Category:1965 musical comedy films
Category:Films directed by Piero Vivarelli
Category:Films with screenplays by Bruno Corbucci
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