Editing Ennio Morricone (section)

==== Comedy ====

Morricone's earliest scores were Italian light comedy and costume pictures, where he learned to write simple, memorable themes. During the 1960s and 1970s he composed the scores for comedies such as ''[[Eighteen in the Sun]]'' (''Diciottenni al sole'', 1962), ''[[Il Successo]]'' (1963), [[Lina Wertmüller]]'s ''[[The Lizards]]'' (''I basilischi'', 1963),<ref name="Biography of Ennio Morricone"/> ''[[Slalom (1965 film)|Slalom]]'' (1965), ''[[Menage all'italiana]]'' (''Menage Italian Style'', 1965), ''[[How I Learned to Love Women]]'' (''Come imparai ad amare le donne'', 1966), ''[[Her Harem]]'' (''L'harem'', 1967), ''[[A Fine Pair]]'' (''Ruba al prossimo tuo'', 1968), ''[[Alibi (1969 film)|L'Alibi]]'' (1969), ''[[This Kind of Love (film)|This Kind of Love]]'' (''Questa specie d'amore'', 1972), ''[[Winged Devils]]'' (''Forza "G"'', 1972), and ''[[Fiorina la vacca]]'' (1972).

His best-known scores for comedies includes ''[[La Cage aux Folles (film)|La Cage aux Folles]]'' (1978) and ''[[La Cage aux Folles II]]'' (1980), both directed by [[Édouard Molinaro]], ''[[Il ladrone]]'' (''The Good Thief'', 1980), [[Georges Lautner]]'s ''[[La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding]]'' (1985), [[Pedro Almodóvar]]'s ''[[Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!]]'' (1990) and Warren Beatty's ''Bulworth'' (1998). Morricone never ceased to arrange and write music for comedies. In 2007, he composed a lighthearted score for the Italian romantic comedy ''Tutte le Donne della mia Vita'' by [[Simona Izzo]], the director who co-wrote the Morricone-scored religious mini-series ''Il Papa Buono''.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Nick |last=Vivarelli |url=https://variety.com/2007/film/news/morricone-i-can-do-anything-1117959621/ |title=Morricone: 'I can do anything' |magazine=Variety |date=15 February 2007 |access-date=24 August 2014}}</ref>