The Telephone Operator (1932 film)

1932 film

The Telephone Operator

Pola in a film scene

Directed by| Nunzio Malasomma
Written by|

* Friedrich Dammann
* Herbert Rosenfeld (story)
* Aldo Vergano
* Raffaello Matarazzo
* Ernst Wolff

Starring|

* Isa Pola
* Mimì Aylmer
* Luigi Cimara
* Sergio Tofano

Cinematography| Anchise Brizzi
Edited by| Nunzio Malasomma
Music by| Otto Stransky

Production
company

Società Italiana Cines

Distributed by| Cinès-Pittaluga

Release date

* 1932 (1932)

Running time

| 80 minutes
Country| Italy
Language| Italian

The Telephone Operator (Italian: La telefonista) is a 1932 Italian comedy film directed by Nunzio Malasomma and starring Isa Pola, Mimì Aylmer and Luigi Cimara. It was a remake of the German film Wrong Number, Miss, released the same year.[1]

The future star María Denis had a small role in the film.

## Cast

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* Isa Pola as Clara – the telephone operator
* Mimì Aylmer as Renée – the mannequin
* Luigi Cimara as the telephone director
* Sergio Tofano as Bàttigo – the tenor
* Giovanni Grasso as Gedeone
* Marcella Rovena as Bàttigo's wife

## References

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1. ^ Mancini p. 66

## Bibliography

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* Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943. Indiana University Press, 2002.
* Mancini, Elaine. Struggles of the Italian film industry during fascism, 1930-1935. UMI Research Press, 1985.

## External links

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* The Telephone Operator at IMDb

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Films directed by Nunzio Malasomma

* Mister Radio (1924)
* One Minute to Twelve (1925)
* The King and the Girl (1925)
* One Against All (1927)
* Struggle for the Matterhorn (1928)
* The Call of the North (1929)
* The Son of the White Mountain (1930)
* The Man with the Claw (1931)
* The Opera Singer (1932)
* The Telephone Operator (1932)
* The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1934)
* I Don't Know You Anymore (1936)
* Lohengrin (1936)
* Red Orchids (1938)
* The Night of Decision (1938)
* The Secret Lie (1938)
* Woman Without a Past (1939)
* Then We'll Get a Divorce (1940)
* Scampolo (1941)
* Torrents of Spring (1942)
* Two Suffer Better Than One (1943)
* The White Devil (1947)
* The Devil in the Convent (1950)
* Four Red Roses (1951)

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