Two years after the English production, Zeffirelli brought Eduardo de Filippo's play "Filumena Marturano" to American audiences. The staging was largely a reproduction of the English version: the same adaptation, albeit with some cuts; sets and costumes once again designed by Raimonda Gaetani. The cast, however, was new and American, with the exception of the two leads — Joan Plowright, who had played Filumena in the English version, and Frank Finlay, who had replaced Colin Blakely in the latter half of the English season and had previously triumphed alongside Plowright in London in "Saturday Sunday Monday".
As with "Saturday Sunday Monday", the production was not a success: American audiences did not embrace the play, which evidently featured characters and situations too far removed from their social reality.