Variety Lights, Luci del varietà, 1950 Italian romantic drama film prod, dir by Federico Fellini

Variety Lights (Italian: Luci del varietà) is a 1950 Italian romantic drama film produced and directed by Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada and starring Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, and Giulietta Masina. The film is about a beautiful and ambitious young woman who joins a traveling troupe of thirdrate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises. A collaboration with Alberto Lattuada in production, direction, and writing, Variety Lights launched Fellini s directorial career. Prior to this film, Fellini worked primarily as a screenwriter, most notably working on Roberto Rossellinis Rome, Open City. Storyline When a young woman of beauty and talent joins a provincial vaudeville troupe, they re suddenly playing to packed houses, and their aging comic Checco Dalmonte gets big ideas. He falls in love with the ingenue, Liliana, and ignores his companion of several years, Melina Amour. (She wants to marry Checco and she s saving to open a deli. ) Also,