Variety Lights

About Variety Lights

In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show.

Variety Lights (1950) is a comedy film directed by Alberto Lattuada and Federico Fellini. It runs 93 minutes and was released in December 1950.

Peppino De Filippo takes the lead as Checco Dal Monte, Carla Del Poggio as Liliana "Lilly" Antonelli, Giulietta Masina as Melina Amour, and John Kitzmiller as Trumpet Player Johnny. Written by Alberto Lattuada and Ennio Flaiano.

In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel.

It scores 6.9 out of 10 from 104 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.