The Lady Is Fickle

{{Short description|1942 film}} {{For|the music|La donna è mobile}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Lady Is Fickle | image = The Lady Is Fickle.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Mario Mattoli | producer = Gaetano Rizzardi | writer = Leo Catozzo Marcello Marchesi Mario Monicelli Stefano Vanzina | starring = Ferruccio Tagliavini Fioretta Dolfi Carlo Campanini | music = Giovanni D'Anzi | cinematography = Alberto Fusi Aldo Tonti | editing = Fernando Tropea | studio = Grandi Film | distributor = Grandi Film | released = {{Film date|1942|10|9|df=yes}} | runtime = 76 minutes | country = Italy | language = Italian }}

'''''The Lady Is Fickle''''' ({{langx|it|'''La donna è mobile'''}} {{IPA|it|la ˈdɔnna ˌɛ mˈmɔːbile|}}) is a 1942 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Ferruccio Tagliavini, Fioretta Dolfi and Carlo Campanini.<ref name="NY Times">{{Cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/98505/The-Lady-Is-Fickle/overview|title=New York Times: The Lady Is Fickle|accessdate=27 July 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005015939/https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/98505/The-Lady-Is-Fickle/overview|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide|author=Hal Erickson|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|archive-date=5 October 2012}}</ref><ref>Nowell-Smith & Ricci p.79</ref> It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone.

==Plot== A poor village teacher has ambitions to be a great singer.

==Cast== *Ferruccio Tagliavini as Ferruccio Landini *Fioretta Dolfi as Rosetta *Carlo Campanini as Cristoforo *Carlo Micheluzzi as Il commendator Carlo *Dora Bini as Isabella *Arturo Bragaglia as Il direttore della scuola *Rosina Anselmi as Sua moglie *Nucci Bagnani as La sorellina di Rosetta *Galeazzo Benti as Un giovanetto al teatro *Agnese Dubbini as La cuoca *Leo Micheluzzi as Il maggiordomo *Giuliana Pitti as Luisella, sorella di Rosetta *Agostino Salvietti as Il cuoco *Margherita Seglin as La madre di Rosetta *Ciro Berardi *Alberto Capozzi *Totò Mignone

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== *Geoffrey Nowell-Smith & Steven Ricci. ''Hollywood and Europe: Economics, Culture, National Identity, 1945-95''. BFI Publishing, 1998.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0034672|title=The Lady Is Fickle}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lady Is Fickle, The}} Category:1942 comedy films Category:1942 films Category:Films directed by Mario Mattoli Category:Films shot at Cinecittà Studios Category:Italian black-and-white films Category:Italian comedy films Category:1942 Italian-language films Category:1942 Italian films Category:Italian-language comedy films