Toto Looks for a Wife

Toto Looks for a Wife
Directed by	Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Written by	Agenore Incrocci Sandro Continenza Furio Scarpelli Vittorio Metz
Starring	Totò Ave Ninchi Aroldo Tieri
Cinematography	Mario Albertelli
Edited by	Renato Cinquini
Music by	Franco Colosimo Amedeo Escobar Italia Savona
Production company	Forum Film
Distributed by	Variety Film
Release date	15 March 1950
Running time	76 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Toto Looks for a Wife (Italian: Totò cerca moglie) is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Totò, Ave Ninchi and Marisa Merlini.

The film's art direction was by Alberto Boccianti.

Plot

In 1950 in Australia Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him not to send him in Italy even a penny until he is married. Toto is in fact a great bachelor who dabbles in sculpture and live in luxury with the money of her aunt. Now Toto is threatened and forced to be with a woman just because Aunt would soon come to Rome to meet the new couple. Thanks to a friend (Aroldo Tieri) Toto is helped but the women that gives him are horrible or are already ammogliate, which causes many misunderstandings. At the end bull is mistaken for a delinquent because of mistaken identity and misunderstanding continues when they come into the house of Toto's aunt and the new "wife", or a woman who is made to pay for pretending to be his wife Toto.

Cast

• Totò as Toto
• Ave Ninchi as La zia
• Marisa Merlini as Luisa, la modella
• Aroldo Tieri as Pippo, il pittore
• Paul Muller as Carlo secret agent Z-15
• Mario Castellani as Filippo
• Nerio Bernardi as Giacinto
• Bruno Cantalamessa
• Giovanna Galletti as secret agent K-8
• Enzo Garinei as Il figlio di Bellavista (as Vincenzo Garinei)
• Zoe Incrocci
• Elvi Lissiak as Adelina
• Anna Maestri as La nera australiana
• Nino Marchesini as Il signor Marco
• Mario Meniconi as Alberto

Bibliography

• Moliterno, Gino. The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

• Toto Looks for a Wife at IMDb