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stage play

Filumena
Written by	Eduardo De Filippo
Date premiered
Place premiered	Naples
Original language	Italian Neapolitan
Subject	after 35 years living together, Filumena is to be thrown over for a younger woman; pretence of death cures all
Genre	Comedy
Setting	Domenico Soriano's house in Naples, Italy

Filumena Marturano (Neapolitan:[filuˈmɛːnəmartuˈrɑːnə], Italian:[filuˈmɛːnamartuˈraːno]), sometime performed in English as The Best Property in Naples, is a perform written in by Italian playwright, actor and poet Eduardo De Filippo.

It is the basis for the Spanish-language Argentine musical film Filomena Marturano, multiple Italian adaptations under its original title, and the film Marriage Italian Style.

Plot

The curtain opens on Domenico Soriano, 50, a wealthy Neapolitan shop-keeper who is raging against Filumena, 48, a former prostitute.

They have lived together for many years (but with him frequently having trysts with other women). Now, when he was intending to marry the younger Diana, Filumena has tricked him into marrying her instead: she pretended to be dying, and so coaxed him into a marriage in articulo mortis, but as soon as they were married she sprang up from her bed to forward away Diana, whom Domenico had disguised as a nurse to have her nearby.

Filumena reveals her reason for wanting to be Domenico's wife: she wants him to legitimise her three sons (Umberto, Michele and Riccardo) who have grown up in foster care and have no idea of who their mother is.

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Domenico is not going to have any of this, and briefs his lawyer Nocella to have the marriage declared null and void. When the lawyer explains to Filumena that he'll easily win the case, she accepts the failure of her ruse, but tells Domenico that one of the three juvenile men is actually his infant, then leaves him.

Ten months later, with all his efforts to find out which of the three young men is his son having failed, Domenico remarries Filumena, accepting all three as his sons.

In the play, Filumena memorably tells Domenico that "children are children, and they're all equal" (I figli sono figli e sono tutti uguali).

Filumena Marturano had previously been adapted as a Argentine film. Set during the Society War II era, the motion picture follows a cynical but thriving year-old businessman named Domenico Mastroianniwho, after meeting a naive year-old country girl, Filumena Lorenduring a bombing outside a Neapolitan brothel, starts an on-again, off-again connection spanning 22 years. From the very beginning, Filumena is deeply in love with Domenico, but her love is not reciprocated. After Filumena expresses her desire to be solely his girl, Domenico arranges a leased dwelling for her, with Rosalie as a maid and Alfredo Aldo Puglisi as the butler, and arranges a job for her in his shop.

Productions

Filumena Marturano initially was written as a tribute to Eduardo's sister Titina De Filippo, a famous Neapolitan theatrical actress, who took the title role in the first production in Naples in The play followed the success of Napoli milionaria, which Eduardo had written and which had premiered the year before to general acclaim.

However, the first evening of the new play proved a disappointment and received lukewarm notices from the Neapolitan theatre-going public. Titina decided to speak to this by following her hold instincts and performing as she felt the role required. She was proved right.

The compete achieved great success, so fantastic in fact that for many years afterwards Titina was called Filumena in Italy rather than her own.^{[citation needed]}

Thanks to an arrangement made by Carlo Trabucco, the editor of the daily Italian Christian Democrat newspaper Il Popolo, an audience was arranged for the cast to encounter Pope Pius XII in a private audience in the Vatican.

At the audience, the pope unexpectedly asked to hear one of the monologues, and Titina recited for him the prayer of Filumena to the Madonna of the Roses.

Il pARTicolare. Sophia Loren, immensa Filumena Marturano: In "Marriage Italian Style" there is an underlying true story, that is the poverty, traditional roles and status of women. Filumena (Sophia Loren) is one of the many girls in Italy during and after the war, who had very several choices to survive: become a maid, or a wife, or a prostitute.

Despite the sturdy connection between Titina De Filippo and the role in the mind of the Italian universal, another actress, Regina Bianchi, was able to achieve cult status as Filumena in subsequent years.

In , an English-language translation by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall was produced at the Lyric Theatre in London, directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Colin Blakely and Joan Plowright.

This won The London Theatres Comedy of the year award in The production was taken to New York City, where it opened on 10 February at the St. James Theatre on Broadway where it ran for 32 performances. Before the New York transfer, it had a run in Baltimore where it was directed by Laurence Olivier (husband of Joan Plowright).

The play was performed at the Piccadilly Theatre, London, opening on 30 September and running until 27 February It was directed by Peter Hall with Judi Dench in the title role. Michael Pennington played Domenico.

Film adaptations

In , Eduardo De Filippo directed Filomena Marturano, an Argentine, Spanish-language film of the play, in which he starred as Domenico alongside his sister Titina.

They also co-starred in the Italian film Filumina Marturano, again directed by De Filippo, although Ms. De Filippo received no screen credit.

Filumena Marturano : [subtitled version] The difficulty is that our hearts used to be so big Filumena Marturano : and now see how small they are. Domenico Soriano : Filumena, what are you wearing? Filumena Marturano : Don't you like it?

He also made a TV version in , in which Regina Bianchi played the title role.

In , another screen version was directed by Vittorio De Sica, titled Matrimonio all'italiana (Marriage Italian Style), starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.

It was nominated for several international awards, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.^[1]

In Italian television, RAI Uno, made a miniseries starring Massimo Ranieri as Domenico and Mariangela Melato as Filumena.

References

Further reading

• De Filippo, Eduardo (). Filumena Marturano.
  And she is Sophia Loren, she is Titina De Filippo, and many other great actresses who have brought her to experience on countless stages and in big screens. She is, at its core, an actress who immerses herself in the whirlwinds of passion to convey a great story anchored in the most quotidian and prosaic details of our existence. She possesses a theatricality that reaches us directly, moves us with its truth, and shows, like a balm, the comedic side of life's difficulties. Filumena is a woman who asserts herself.

  Commedia in tre atti (in Italian) (First&#;ed.). Torino. OCLC&#;: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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