Judging from the number of its theatrical adaptations and the countries in which it was adapted, Anna Bonacci's L'ora della fantasia (The Fantasy Hour) was indeed “the most successful Italian comedy of the postwar era.” After its 1944 premiere in Rome, the play was performed again in Geneva in 1949 and in Paris in 1953 under the title L'Heure éblouissante (The Dazzling Hour). The enormous success the play received in Switzerland and France opened the way in the 1950s to numerous stagings worldwide, from Lisbon and Stockholm to Amsterdam and Mexico City. L'ora della fantasia has also been adapted for other media, including a musical, a film, and a television film. In fact, one of its film adaptations, Billy Wilder's 1964 Kiss Me, Stupid, has proved to be so well known that Bonacci's comedy is now often presented on the Italian stage as Baciami stupido!, and is sometimes even set in Climax, Nevada, the location Wilder used in his film.