Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
What an adorable movie! I love Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, and have already bought a DVD copy to add to my old movie collection. It’s not a very highly publicized fact, but this movie is the original, non-musical version of Mamma Mia! There were a few changes from 1968 to Broadway, like the change of setting from Italy to Greece, but the plot is still really similar, and very entertaining.
Gina Lollobrigida stars as the titular Mrs. Campbell, a single mother in a small Italian village. She hasn’t really been alone in raising her daughter, Janet Margolin, though. Twenty years ago, during the war, Gina had whirlwind romances with three different soldiers. When she got pregnant, she didn’t know which one was the father, so she wrote to each of them. Child support was the least they could do, right? Only now, there’s a problem: There’s a reunion organized among the soldiers, and all three men are coming to town! Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas, and Phil Silvers, are all anxious to meet their daughter for the first time, and Gina’s got quite a lot of explaining to do. . .
Go out and rent this movie the next time you’re having movie night with your mom; it’s so cute! Gina is charming and beautiful, Melvin Frank, Denis Norden, and Sheldon Keller’s script is hilarious, and the love quadrangle is very entertaining. Gina has a cute romance with Phillippe Leroy on the side, and each of her ex-boyfriends are now married, each with interesting and realistic relationships with their wives: Shelley Winters, Lee Grant, and Marian McCargo. Sufficed to say, there’s so much to love about this movie. Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell is heartwarming and funny, and the song is delightful, too!
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Gina Lollobrigida stars as the titular Mrs. Campbell, a single mother in a small Italian village. She hasn’t really been alone in raising her daughter, Janet Margolin, though. Twenty years ago, during the war, Gina had whirlwind romances with three different soldiers. When she got pregnant, she didn’t know which one was the father, so she wrote to each of them. Child support was the least they could do, right? Only now, there’s a problem: There’s a reunion organized among the soldiers, and all three men are coming to town! Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas, and Phil Silvers, are all anxious to meet their daughter for the first time, and Gina’s got quite a lot of explaining to do. . .
Go out and rent this movie the next time you’re having movie night with your mom; it’s so cute! Gina is charming and beautiful, Melvin Frank, Denis Norden, and Sheldon Keller’s script is hilarious, and the love quadrangle is very entertaining. Gina has a cute romance with Phillippe Leroy on the side, and each of her ex-boyfriends are now married, each with interesting and realistic relationships with their wives: Shelley Winters, Lee Grant, and Marian McCargo. Sufficed to say, there’s so much to love about this movie. Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell is heartwarming and funny, and the song is delightful, too!
Want to watch it? Click here to see it on ok.ru and thanks "The Projection Room" for posting!
More Gina Lollobrigida movies here!
More Shelley Winters movies here!