What a Woman! (1956)

A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.

Director:

Alessandro Blasetti

Writers:

Alessandro Blasetti, Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)

Stars:

Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer, Marcello Mastroianni

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sophia Loren	...	Antonietta Fallari
Charles Boyer	...	Count Gregorio Sennetti
Marcello Mastroianni	...	Corrado Betti
Elisa Cegani	...	Elena Sennetti
Titina De Filippo	...	La madre di Antonietta
Nino Besozzi	...	Paolo Magnano
Margherita Bagni
Anna Carena
Piero Carnabuci
Memmo Carotenuto	...	Gustavo Ippoliti
Nino Dal Fabbro
Giustino Durano	...	Federico Frotta
Salvo Libassi
Guido Riccioli
Mauro Sacripanti	...	Aiuto fotografo (as Mauro Sacripante)

Storyline

A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.

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Plot Keywords:

cover model | magazine cover | italy | evening gown | fashion model | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Details

Country:

France Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

2 February 1956 (Italy)

Also Known As:

What a Woman!

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Documento Film, Le Louvre Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in Censura: Alguns Cortes (1999)

User Reviews

Breezy comedy.

LUCKY TO BE A WOMAN was the third film that featured Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni together. It is a breezy, inconsequential, but likeable comedy about a photographer, Corrado, played by Mastroianni, who snaps a picture of a Rome beauty, Antonietta, played by Loren. The photo, much to Antonietta's surprise, winds up on the front page of a magazine. She wants to sue! At the instigation of Corrado the girl allows herself to be courted by the Count Senetti, whose specialty is launching cinema careers of potential female stars and sleeping with them. The lewd count takes a sexual interest in Loren. It is dashed by the sudden appearance on the scene of the count's legitimate wife (played by the long-time Blasetti favorite Elisa Cegani.) The movie's most delicious scene is when at a restaurant table with her cheating husband and Antonietta, the wife orders a salad, complete with Worcestershire and raw egg, only to launch the concoction into her lecherous husband's face. She steals the show. Throughout it all, Loren and Mastroianni, though constantly sparring, nurture a thinly concealed love for each other, which leads to the inevitable "bacio and abbraccio" and promise of a marriage by the time the film ends. This movie followed on the heels of Blasetti's very popular TOO BAD SHE'S BAD, made a year earlier.