Diary Of A Telephone Operator (1969)

Director
Marcello Fondato

Main cast
Claudia Cardinale; Catherine Spaak; Robert Hoffmann; Nino Castelnuovo; John Phillip Law

Genres
Comedy

Description
The star is international glamour plate Claudia Cardinale, improbably cast as a telephone switchboard operator. It is believable that Cardinale is using her job as a means to trap a man for herself. When she is stood up by her first conquest, Cardinale teams with Catherine Spaak to romance and fleece eligible rich bachelors (and a few wealthy husbands) up and down the European continent.


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