Poppy (1952 film)

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