The Career of a Chambermaid

The Career of a Chambermaid
Directed by	Dino Risi
Written by	Bernardino Zapponi Ruggero Maccari Dino Risi
Produced by	Pio Angeletti
Starring	Agostina Belli Vittorio Gassman Ugo Tognazzi
Cinematography	Claudio Cirillo
Edited by	Alberto Gallitti
Music by	Armando Trovajoli
Release date	1976 (1976)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Telefoni bianchi (transl.White Telephones, internationally released as The Career of a Chambermaid) is a 1976 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. For this film Agostina Belli was awarded with a Special David di Donatello for her performance. The title refers to the White Telephone comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. The film is a comic portrayal of the Italian film industry during the Fascist era in which an ambitious young woman briefly rises to become a film star.

Cast

• Agostina Belli: Marcella Valmarín
• Cochi Ponzoni: Roberto Trevisan
• Maurizio Arena: Luciani
• William Berger: Franz
• Lino Toffolo: Gondrano
• Vittorio Gassman: Franco D’Enza
• Ugo Tognazzi: Adelmo
• Renato Pozzetto: Lt. Bruni
• Dino Baldazzi: Benito Mussolini
• Paolo Baroni: Gabriellino
• Alvaro Vitali: Mario, the son in the brothel

See also

• List of Italian films of 1976
• Telefoni Bianchi

Bibliography

• Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.

External links

• The Career of a Chambermaid at IMDb