Lucky to Be a Woman (Italian: La fortuna di essere donna and also known as What a Woman!) is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer and Marcello Mastroianni.
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Plot
A photographer named Corrado (Mastroianni) snaps a picture of Antonietta (Loren). When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it. He then tries to convince her that he can connect her up with powerful men and introduces her to Count Gregorio Sennetti (Boyer), who can make her a movie star, but things do not turn out well when the count's wife shows up.
Cast
Sophia Loren as Antonietta Fallari
Charles Boyer as Count Gregorio Sennetti
Marcello Mastroianni as Corrado Betti
Elisa Cegani as Elena Sennetti
Titina De Filippo as Antonietta's mother
Nino Besozzi as Paolo Magnano
Memmo Carotenuto as Gustavo Ippoliti
Giustino Durano as Federico Frotta
Margherita Bagni as Mirella Fontanisi
Anna Carena as Brazilian billionaire
Piero Carnabuci as President of the Film House
Salvo Libassi as Sor Arduino
Mauro Sacripante as Corrado's assistant photographer
Nino Dal Fabbro as Journalist of Le Ore
Mario Scaccia as Head waiter