A Thousand Lire a Month

A Thousand Lire a Month (Italian: Mille lire al mese) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Alida Valli, Umberto Melnati and Osvaldo Valenti. It is a remake of the 1936 Hungarian film Havi 200 fix. The plot concerns an electronic engineer who goes to Budapest, accompanied by his girlfriend, to work on experiments for a new television system leading to countless mix-ups.

It was shot at the Safa Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti.

Cast

 * Alida Valli as Magda
 * Umberto Melnati as Matteo
 * Osvaldo Valenti as Gabriele Corodi
 * Renato Cialente as Il direttore generale della Radio di Budapest
 * Niní Gordini Cervi as Lilli
 * Giuseppe Pierozzi as Axel, il capo del personale
 * Anna Doré as Lia Loletta
 * Amina Pirani Maggi as La madre di Magda
 * Maria Polese as La zia di Magda
 * Fausto Guerzoni as Leopoldo Almos
 * Vasco Creti as Il padrone della farmacia
 * Armando Arzalesi
 * Aristide Baghetti as Il padrino con il monocolo
 * Luigi Erminio D'Olivo as L'ingegnere in attesa di diventare padre
 * Carlo Lombardi as Il ministro
 * Renato Malavasi as Un tecnico televisivo
 * Livia Minelli as Francesca, la cameriera
 * Lina Tartara Minora as La padrona della pensione di Almos
 * Sergio Pastorini as Il tenore
 * Cesare Polacco as Carletto, l'altro padrino
 * Adriano Rimoldi as Un impiegato della radio
 * Dina Romano as La donna con il mal di denti
 * Felice Romano as Un altro tecnico televisivo
 * Gennaro Sabatano
 * Elettra Terzolo as Caterina, la cameriera