Acting
De Sica's physical comedy — all nervous twitches and sudden abandon.
Direction
Mattoli keeps scenes breathless without modern editing tricks.
Director
Mario Mattoli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Italy's 'telefoni bianchi' genre — white telephone comedies aping Hollywood glamour while Mussolini's censors looked away from the bedroom doors.
De Sica made over 150 films as an actor before directing; this was his 47th role in just seven years. The man never slept.
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