Tutta la città canta (1945)

Interesting facts

Tutta la città canta is a 1945 Italian musical-comedy film directed by Riccardo Freda.

Production

Tutta la città canta was director Riccardo Freda's third film as a director. It was influenced by Hollywood films with the idea of putting a "revue" film on which featured the period's major singers and film stars, similar to The Hollywood Revue of 1929.

During the script writing period, Freda met the then cartoonist Federico Fellini who was 23 years old at the time. According to Freda, Fellini was introduced to him by Vittorio Metz and took part in the screenwriting process. Freda described Fellini's contributions as being "scribbling on sheet after sheet of paper with a pen.

Recording music for the film had to be done discreetly, as by 1938 in Italy, jazz was labeled as "Negroid music" and banished from the radio, and American music was forbidden by 1940. When performing songs such as "Louisiana blues", guards were placed outside the recording studio to make sure Blackshirts would not catch them.

Shooting on the film began in 1943 at Pisorno studios in Tirrenia under the title 6 x 8 / 48, based on one of the musical numbers in the film. Within a few weeks, filming was cancelled due to the escalation of World War II in Italy. Production on the film only began again in 1945. Much of the cast was unavailable at the time, and the Vivi Gioi had gained a significant amount of weight.

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