Rita the American Girl

Rita the American Girl
Directed by	Piero Vivarelli
Written by	Tito Carpi Bruno Corbucci
Produced by	Fabrizio Capucci
Starring	Totò, Rita Pavone
Cinematography	Emanuele Di Cora
Edited by	Enzo Micarelli
Music by	The Rokes: David Norman Shapiro
Distributed by	Titanus
Release date	1965 (1965)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Rita the American Girl (Italian: Rita, la figlia americana) is a 1965 Italian "musicarello" film directed by Piero Vivarelli with Totò and Rita Pavone.

Plot

Professor Serafino Benvenuti (Totò) is a classical director of limited talents. He is dismayed at the growing popularity of beat music, which he hears daily from a youth club across the street (whose houseband is The Rokes). Hoping to pass on the classical tradition to the next generation, Benvenuti decides to adopt an orphaned child from Chile, who unexpectedly turns out to be the 18-year-old Rita d’Angelo (Rita Pavone). Rita, however, is more in-tune with the contemporary pop sounds of the day than the classical tradition of her adoptive father, leading to conflict.

Cast

• Totò as Serafino Benvenuti
• Rita Pavone as Rita D'Angelo
• Fabrizio Capucci as Fabrizio Carli
• Lina Volonghi as Greta Wagner
• Umberto D'Orsi as Orazio
• Veronica as Diana
• Shel Shapiro (credited as David Norman Shapiro)
• Mike Shepstone
• Bobby Posner
• Johnny Charlton

Bibliography

• Heide Fehrenbach & Uta G. Poiger. Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan. Berghahn Books, 2000.

External links

• Rita the American Girl at IMDb