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The Queens (1966)

• Directors
  • Mauro Bolognini(segment Fata Elena)
  • Mario Monicelli(segment Fata Armenia)
  • Antonio Pietrangeli(segment Fata Marta)
• Writers
  • Ruggero Maccari(story)
  • Luigi Magni(story)
  • Suso Cecchi D'Amico(screenplay)
• Stars
  • Monica Vitti
  • Enrico Maria Salerno
  • Claudia Cardinale

  This melodramatic Italian and French anthology is comprised of four unrelated short films directed by four different directors. The first vignette, "Queen Sabina" (or "The Hitchhiker") chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" (aka "The Room with a Juke Box") centers on a self-serving opportunistic gypsy babysitter who uses her employer's kids for her own gain. The third episode, "Queen Elena" (aka "The Digestive Tablet") centers on a husband who learns a lesson about the perils of infidelity after he succumbs to the wiles of the seductive wife next door. The last vignette, "Queen Marta" (aka "Giovanni") centers on a wealthy woman who, when drunk, uses her butler as an outlet for her lust.