Poppy (1952 film)
Introduction '''''Poppy''''' (Italian: '''''Lo sai che i papaveri''''') is a 1952 Italian comedy film by Vittorio Metz and Marcello Marchesi and starring Walter Chiari, Anna Maria Ferrero and Carlo Campanini. It was sot at the Ponti-De Laurentis Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti.
Synopsis Unknowingly, respectable schoolteacher Gualtiero leads a double life as Walter who frequents nightclubs every night. Whereas Gualtiero is engaged to a fellow teacher Anna, Walter is a carousing womaniser. Pierina, one of his students who has a crush on him, discovers about his nocturnal visits and seeks him out. They enjoy a romance, but by day he remembers nothing about it. Eventually when confronted, he visits a psychiatrist who reveals he has a duel personality with strong contrasting traits inherited from each of his parents.
Cast * Walter Chiari as Gualtiero/Walter* Anna Maria Ferrero as  Pierina Zacchi* Carlo Campanini as   Padre di Pierina* Luisa Rossi as Anna Butti* Franca Rame as  Silvana* Raimondo Vianello as  lo psicoanalista * Lauro Gazzolo as  il preside* Juan Carlos Lamas as Lamas * Galeazzo Benti as 	Viveur del night* Dorian Gray as La guardarobiera* Marcella Rovena as Governanta casa Zacchi* Belle Tildy as 	Jeanette D'Aubry* Maria Pia Trepaoli as 	Cartomante* Guglielmo Barnabò as 	Medico* Ennio Girolami as Marocchi * Bruno Smith as 	Direttore del night 'I tarocchi'* Guglielmo Inglese as  il bidello Elia* Mario De Simone as Compoagna del scuola* Franco Pastorino as 	Rinaldo* Mimmo Poli as 'Sfilatino'* Furio Meniconi as Spacciatore di droga
References
Bibliography * Brunetta, Gian Piero. ''The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century''. Princeton University Press, 2009.
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