Gina Lollobrigida credited as playing...
Carla Campbell
- Rosa: The name Campbell, where did you get that?
- Carla Campbell: From the soup.
- Rosa: You named yourself a soup?
- Carla Campbell: I had to. The only other American name I knew was Coca Cola. I couldn't call myself Mrs. Coca Cola.
- Carla Campbell: Every day, more and more soldiers came to the American air base. Soon there was no more room, so they had to put them in the houses of people. In every house, two or three men. But my house was very small. Just room for one man. So, they sent the one man. The sergeant, Walter Braddock, so sweet, a little boy.
- Carla Campbell: He was an officer. It was like magic. He would bring me eggs, chocolate and soup. Oh, how I love that American soup.
- Carla Campbell: They came into my life, they went out of my life. And three weeks later I found I was going to have a baby...
- Carla Campbell: So I wrote to each one and told them my condition. And each one wrote back the same thing, "Don't you worry, sweetheart baby. I'll take care of you!" And they did. They sent me a check each month ever since.
- Rosa: Ever since? For twenty years, you received a check every month?
- Carla Campbell: For twenty years, I received three checks every month.
- Rosa: And you still don't know the father of your child?
- Carla Campbell: Of course I know him. I just don't know who he is.
- Carla Campbell: I had my baby in Florence, and when I came back, I was wearing widow's clothes. And I was mourning for my dear dead rich American husband.
- Rosa: Captain Soup?
- Carla Campbell: Yes.
- Carla Campbell: Carla Solmi, "the alley cat," they used to call me... the women of the town... To those people I'm going to tell I've got a child with no husband and could be any one of three fathers? No, I don't tell them anything.
- Carla Campbell: Let those fat cows go jump in a sewer and float around.
- Rosa: Calm yourself.
- Carla Campbell: I'm a lady now. As good as everybody.
- Rosa: What did this one want?
- Carla Campbell: The same as before, except with two rooms, two baths and a shower.
- Carla Campbell: Because there was no brave captain. There was no captain at all.
- Vittorio: Then what was he?
- Carla Campbell: One lieutenant, one sergeant and a corporal.
- Carla Campbell: He didn't go three years to school, and suddenly he's a writer. He's a journalist. Who appointed you to conduct the correspondence with my daughter?
- Vittorio: Somebody had to write. After all, she has no father.
- Carla Campbell: Huh. The one thing she's not short of is fathers.
- Gia Campbell: It's strange. Momma, I can't find one American who's even heard of poppa.
- Carla Campbell: How soon they forget.
- Vittorio: [as he watches Walter dance with Gia, and bends over to Carla at her table] This is one of them?
- Carla Campbell: Mm hmm.
- Vittorio: [chuckling] Hmh, hmh, hmh.
- Vittorio: [as Phil dances with Gia] Him too?
- Carla Campbell: Mm hmm.
- Vittorio: [lowering his head to hide his laughter] Hmh, hmh, hmh, hmh.
- Vittorio: [as Justin begins dancing with Gia] The third one?
- Carla Campbell: Yes.
- Vittorio: Handsome man.
- Carla Campbell: Yes.
- Vittorio: He's well built.
- Carla Campbell: Yes.
- Vittorio: He's a fairy.
- Carla Campbell: [after listening to Gia's phone discussion in French] And Brazil? You mentioned Brazil.
- Gia Campbell: I didn't think you understood French.
- Carla Campbell: Brazil is the only French word I know.