Model Wanted

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Model Wanted
Directed by E. W. Emo
Written by
Produced by Ferruccio Biancini
Starring
Cinematography Hugo von Kaweczynski
Music by Otto Stransky
Production
company
Distributed by Cinès-Pittaluga
Release date
  • 1933 (1933)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryItaly
Language Italian

Model Wanted (Italian : Cercasi modella) is a 1933 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by E. W. Emo and starring Elsa Merlini, Nino Besozzi, and Gianfranco Giachetti. [1] It is the Italian-language version of the German comedy film Marion, That's Not Nice , also directed by Emo.

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  1. Scaglione, p. 134.

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