Figure 1.-- This charming American film, "It Started in Naples", is set in Naples. An American (Clark Cable) falls in love with an Italian (Sofia Loren) who is caring for Clark's surprise nephew, Nando. The boy is 10 years old, but looks a bit younger. He is wonderfully plays a boy with an adorable personality. Gable's film nephew Nando (nickname for Fernando) was played by Marietto Angeletti.

This charming American film is set in Naples. The film is American, but Italians actors dominated the film. An American (Clark Cable) falls in love with an Italian (Sofia Loren) who is caring for Clark's surprise nephew, Nando. The other star in the film was Vittorio De Sica. The boy is 10 years old, but looks a bit younger. He is wonderfully plays a boy with an adorable personality. Gable's film nephew Nando (nickname for Fernando) was played by Marietto Angeletti. He played in 6 or 7 other movies during the late 1950s and early 1960s. As far as I know they were Italian filns without important American film runs. Nando usually wears non-discript short shorts which were common in Italy at the time. He plays a charming street-wise kid. There is one scene where he is sent off to school against his will. His aunt hasn't insisted that he go to school, but she pretends she has to show what a good job she is doing in raising him. She sends him for show all smartly decked out in a classic Itlaian school outfit: a blue smock, wide white collar, and red bow. The only other time he is smartly dressed is at the end of the movie when he appears in a long pants suit. The movie was filmed on the Isle of Capri off Naples. In Italy it was entitled "La baia di Napoli" (i.e. Naples Bay).

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