New York is rolling out the welcome mat for Italy’s greatest comedian, Antonio De Curtis — their version of Charlie Chaplin — with the US debut of “Totò and His Naples.” De Curtis, also known as Totò, is being celebrated in an exhibition showcasing the Neapolitan comic legend’s nearly 100-film career at the Italian American Museum in Little Italy now through Aug. 29.
“He’s considered in Italy one of the most amazing actors of the 20th century,” Claudio Pagliara, director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, told The Post. “He was portraying this face of Naples that was full of problems, but with an energy and an optimism about the future that made him so popular, not only [in] Naples, actually, but in Italy and among American and Italian-Americans that now live in New York,” he explained.
