Word: filomena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marriage-Italian Style. Pathetically, the dying Filomena lifts her eyes to Domenico, the prosperous pastry merchant she has adored and been kept by for 20 years. "Do you love this woman?" asks an old priest. "You know about us," the merchant shrugs. Someone throws a pillow at his feet, he finds himself kneeling at her bedside, and at death's door they are joined in wedlock. Moments later, Domenico glances at his watch, tiptoes away to phone the nubile cashier he will marry when Filomena dies. Behind him suddenly the curtains are swept aside, and there stands Filomena blooming...
...story, based on a popular Italian play, relishes every step of a slut's progress from a bawdyhouse to a legal bed. At 17, driven by wartime necessity, Filomena meets Domenico on the job. In her 20s, he sets her up in a little flat. In her 30s, he takes her home to care for his invalid mother. In her 40s, Filomena is running his business and his house, and Domenico at 50 is still running around...
Duped at last into marrying his tart, the pastryman naturally seeks an annulment, charging fraud. But Filomena has other aces up her sleeve: three stripling sons, whose identities she has concealed for years. "One of them is yours," she purrs, and goes away letting him wonder which. He wonders himself into a state of unconditional surrender...