Il signor Max

In this delightful and lighthearted Italian comedy from 1937, Vittorio De Sica shines as Gianni, a poor newspaper salesman who gets caught up in his own fantasies of high society when he poses as aristocrat Count Max Varaldo on vacation. After meeting the beautiful and snobbish Donna Paola on a cruise, Gianni's ruse is threatened when he falls for her shy maid Lauretta, leading to a series of hilarious misunderstandings that will have you chuckling along with him.