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1. Did you know that Dustin Hoffmann and Robert De Niro starred together in a film called "Sex and Power" ("Sesso e potere")? You didn't? Well, do you remember the original title of the 1997 movie, directed by Barry Levinson about a sex scandal involving the President of the United States?
2. The title of this 1990 Adrian Lyne's film, starring Tim Robbins, has a biblical source, but in Italian it was called "Perverse Hallucination" ("Allucinazione perversa"). Much more enticing than the original, that was what?
3. Have you ever heard Johnny Cash singing his famous song "When Love Burns My Soul"? Wait a minute: what song is this? Actually, it's the Italian title ("Quando l'amore brucia l'anima") of the biopic about Cash's early life and career. The title of this 2005 film, directed by James Mangold, is the same as the title of a 1956 hit by Johnny. Can you pick the earliest among the following songs?
4. Which 1972 comedy directed by Ernest Lehman, based on a bestselling novel with the same title, written by Philip Roth, had the privilege of being translated in Italian into: "If I Don't Do That I Am Not Amused" ("Se non faccio quello non mi diverto")?
5. Let's go to Britain for a very successful 1962 film: "Only Two Can Play". In Italian, for the reasons I have already mentioned, it was called "Sex, Sin and Chastity" ("Sesso, Peccato e Castità").
Do you remember which actor, comedian, singer, and who later interpreted a French inspector, starred in this film?
6. This great French director was often mistreated by his Italian "cousins" with the translation of his titles. Two examples:
"La sirène du Mississippi" (Mississippi Mermaid") became "My Drug is Called Julie" ("La mia droga si chiama Julie"); "Domicile conjugal" ("Marital Home") became: "Don't Make a Drama... It Is Just a Matter of Horns" (Non drammatizziamo...è solo questione di corna") where "horns" mean "adultery".
Who is this director, who gave us also the beautiful "Day for Night" and "Jules and Jim"?
7. Jimmy Stewart had acrophobia in this film that in the Italian version was called "The Woman Who Lived Twice". The woman was Kim Novak. Do you remember the name of this 1958 Hitchcock classic?
8. Could you ever imagine which John Ford film is hidden behind the Italian title "Rio Bravo"?
It was released in 1950, and it's the only one among those listed starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.
9. "Please Don't Touch the Old Ladies" ("Per favore non toccate le vecchiette") is the Italian title of Mel Brooks' debut as a director. Do you remember the original title of this film, starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, that was later adapted as a musical?
10. "La signora del venerdì" sounds like a good translation for a 1940 film, directed by Howard Hawks, with Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant. But it is not.
What film, adapted from the play "The Front Page", am I talking about? (Think Robinson Crusoe).
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