Filomena Marturano is a 1950 Spanish language

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 musical film

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

. It is based on the theatrical piece Filumena Marturano

Filumena Marturano

Filumena Marturano is a play written in 1946 by Italian playwright and philosopher Eduardo De Filippo.-Plot:The curtain opens on Domenico Soriano, 50, a wealthy Neapolitan shop-keeper who is raging against Filumena, 48, a former prostitute...

by the Neapolitan actor and author Eduardo De Filippo

Eduardo De Filippo

Eduardo De Filippo was an Italian actor, playwright, screenwriter, author and poet, best known for his Neapolitan works Filumena Marturano and Napoli Milionaria.-Biography:...

, which had been previously performed in Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 with great success by the company of Tita Merello

Tita Merello

Laura Ana Merello best known as Tita Merello was a prominent Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer...

. It was adapted by Ariel Cortazzo and María Cruz Regás. It was directed by Luis Mottura. It starred Tita Merello and Guillermo Battaglia

Guillermo Battaglia

Guillermo Battaglia was a prolific Argentine film actor of the classic era of Argentine cinema.Born in Buenos Aires, he began his film career in 1937 in Melodías porteñas. Battaglia starred in over 100 films between then and 1987...

.

The film was remade in 1964 as the Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 film Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio all'italiana).