Sandra Dee, Rock Hudson, Bobby Darin, and Gina Lollobrigida in Come September (1961)

Shelley Winters and John Garfield in He Ran All the Way (1951)

Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, and George Nader in The Female Animal (1957)

Lucille Ball and Bob Hope in The Facts of Life (1960)

Mary Astor, Herbert Marshall, and Virginia Bruce in Woman Against Woman (1938)

Joan Fontaine, James Mason, Harry Belafonte, Joan Collins, Dorothy Dandridge, and Michael Rennie in Island in the Sun (1957)

You averaged eighty-five a month, you, a hundred and fifteen, me, a hundred a forty... which, over twenty years, compounded at six percent interest, would come to a hundred and ninety seven thousand dollars.

A hundred and ninety seven *thousand*?... We paid more war damages than Germany!

Telly Savalas, Peter Lawford, Gina Lollobrigida, and Phil Silvers in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

Telly Savalas, Peter Lawford, and Phil Silvers in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

Peter Lawford and Marian McCargo in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

Shelley Winters, Gina Lollobrigida, and Marian McCargo in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

Philippe Leroy, Gina Lollobrigida, and Naomi Stevens in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

Telly Savalas and Janet Margolin in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

Phil Silvers in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

Gina Lollobrigida in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

Gina Lollobrigida

Shelley Winters

Phil Silvers

Melvin Frank

Denis Norden

Sheldon Keller

Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment from three former soldiers who all believe themselves to be the father of her daughter, Gia.

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

A simple yet endearing comedy which holds up well to this day

In the &apos;50s and &apos;60s, perhaps thanks to the success of Neo-Realistic cinema, Italian actors and locations became quite popular in American movies, especially comedies (the amusing It Started in Naples, starring Sophia Loren and Clark Gable, is one example worth revisiting). Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, with the always lovely Gina Lollobrigida playing the main role, is probably one of the funniest hybrids of US and Mediterranean talent.

Lollobrigida plays Carla Campbell, a widow who supposedly lost her husband during WWII. She lives in the South of Italy and provides for her daughter Gia (Janet Margolin) all by herself. It&apos;s all fine until a group of soldiers who fought in Italy during the war returns for a reunion and the truth is slowly unveiled: there is no Mr. Campbell, Carla having made him up since she slept with three different men (Telly Savalas, Phil Silvers and Peter Lawford) and doesn&apos;t know which of them is Gia&apos;s father. To complicate things even more, she told all three of them the girl is their daughter. In other words: mix-ups and misunderstandings are inevitable.

The story is extremely simple and a very good premise for a comedy, so good no one has ever tried to remake it (well, if you don&apos;t count the ABBA musical Mamma Mia!, which has a similar plot). Then again, it might be hard to pull off something like it nowadays (unless the setting was some place where paternity tests don&apos;t exist) - its look on adultery isn&apos;t exactly PC (and yet it was released while the Hays Code was still functional). Still, the gags come sharp and fast, particularly when Savalas and Silvers are on screen, and Lollobrigida is, as ever, a beauty to watch and hear. Margolin isn&apos;t bad either, whereas Lawford&apos;s subdued performance doesn&apos;t really sit well with the quick wit and great physical comedy delivered by his two rivals. But that&apos;s a minor flaw in a film that doesn&apos;t show up very often, but when it does, it truly is worth catching. Where else are you going to hear Lollobrigida explain that she called herself Campbell, like a soup brand, because the only other American name she knew was Coca-Cola?

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In the '50s and '60s, perhaps thanks to the success of Neo-Realistic cinema, Italian actors and locations became quite popular in American movies, especially comedies (the amusing It Started in Naples, starring Sophia Loren and Clark Gable, is one example worth revisiting). Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, with the always lovely Gina Lollobrigida playing the main role, is probably one of the funniest hybrids of US and Mediterranean talent.

Lollobrigida plays Carla Campbell, a widow who supposedly lost her husband during WWII. She lives in the South of Italy and provides for her daughter Gia (Janet Margolin) all by herself. It's all fine until a group of soldiers who fought in Italy during the war returns for a reunion and the truth is slowly unveiled: there is no Mr. Campbell, Carla having made him up since she slept with three different men (Telly Savalas, Phil Silvers and Peter Lawford) and doesn't know which of them is Gia's father. To complicate things even more, she told all three of them the girl is their daughter. In other words: mix-ups and misunderstandings are inevitable.

The story is extremely simple and a very good premise for a comedy, so good no one has ever tried to remake it (well, if you don't count the ABBA musical Mamma Mia!, which has a similar plot). Then again, it might be hard to pull off something like it nowadays (unless the setting was some place where paternity tests don't exist) - its look on adultery isn't exactly PC (and yet it was released while the Hays Code was still functional). Still, the gags come sharp and fast, particularly when Savalas and Silvers are on screen, and Lollobrigida is, as ever, a beauty to watch and hear. Margolin isn't bad either, whereas Lawford's subdued performance doesn't really sit well with the quick wit and great physical comedy delivered by his two rivals. But that's a minor flaw in a film that doesn't show up very often, but when it does, it truly is worth catching. Where else are you going to hear Lollobrigida explain that she called herself Campbell, like a soup brand, because the only other American name she knew was Coca-Cola?

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