Gloria Guida is an Italian actress and model. She is best known for starring in commedia sexy all'italiana, particularly the La liceale series, and also in erotic coming-of-age-drama films in the mid-1970s.
Edwige Fenech is a French-Italian actress and film producer. She is mostly known as the star of a series of commedia sexy all'italiana and giallo films released in the 1970s, which turned her into a sex symbol.
Gerlando "Lando" Buzzanca was an Italian stage, film, and television actor whose career spanned 65 years.
Stefania Sandrelli is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the commedia all'Italiana, starting from the 1960s. She was 14 years old when she starred in Divorce Italian Style as Angela, the cousin and love interest of Ferdinando, played by Marcello Mastroianni.
Commedia all'italiana, or Italian-style comedy, is an Italian film genre born in Italy in the 1950s and developed in the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's Big Deal on Madonna Street in 1958, and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorce Italian Style (1961). According to most of the critics, La Terrazza (1980) by Ettore Scola is the last work considered part of the commedia all'italiana.
Pasquale Festa Campanile was an Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist, best known as a prominent exponent of the commedia all'italiana genre.
Maria Grazia Buccella is an Italian actress, glamour model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Italia 1959 and represented her country at Miss Universe 1959.
Operazione San Pietro, internationally released as Operation St. Peter's, is a 1967 Italian comedy film directed by Lucio Fulci. The film is a sort of unofficial sequel to Treasure of San Gennaro , a successful heist-comedy film that Dino Risi had filmed the previous year.
The commedia sexy all'italiana, also known as commedia scollacciata or commedia erotica all'italiana, is a subgenre of the Italian commedia all'italiana film genre.
The Eroticist is a 1972 Italian commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Lucio Fulci. It had censorship problems and was banned shortly after its release. Later it was released in a heavily cut version and prohibited for persons under 18 years.
Il malato immaginario is a 1979 Italian comedy film directed by Tonino Cervi. It is a loose adaptation of Molière's Le Malade imaginaire set in 1600 papal Rome.
Il gatto mammone is a 1975 Italian commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Nando Cicero.
Il turno is a 1981 Italian comedy film directed by Tonino Cervi.
Man of the Year is a 1971 Italian commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Marco Vicario. The film was a blockbuster at the Italian box office.
L'uccello migratore is a 1972 Italian comedy film directed by Steno and starring Lando Buzzanca and Rossana Podestà.
Rascel-Fifì is a 1957 Italian crime-comedy film directed by Guido Leoni. It is a parody of Jules Dassin's Rififi. The film was a success at the Italian box office.
Aldo Puglisi was an Italian actor.
An Italian in America is a 1967 Commedia all'italiana film co-written and directed by Alberto Sordi and starring the same Sordi opposite Vittorio De Sica. Screenwriter Rodolfo Sonego was inspired for the plot by the participation of one of his friends, the painter Salvatore Scarpitta, to the NBC program This Is Your Life.
Vittoria Schisano is an Italian actress and author.
Elsa Vazzoler was an Italian stage, film, television and voice actress.
