Lina Marengo
Nacimiento : 1911-01-18, Rome, Italy
Muerte : 1987-02-06
América española, siglo XVIII. A una pequeña ciudad llega una compañía italiana de teatro. Camilla, la estrella del espectáculo, debe elegir entre tres hombres: el Virrey, un joven oficial y un torero. Es un homenaje a la Comedia del Arte.
la vecchia della locanda
Very stylish Italian swashbuckler - The Three Musketeers from the viewpoint of Milady de Winter
Serafina
Dos profesores, preocupados por dar una formación sexual adecuada a sus alumnos, deciden que una pareja de jóvenes estudiantes enamorados será el objetivo perfecto de sus experimentos.
En un castillo, algunos actores son invitados de un duque. Sucede que un precioso cinturón de castidad, herencia familiar, desaparece por culpa de un ladrón. Los actores, encabezados por el emprendedor comediante, que mientras tanto se enamora de la hija del duque, logran encontrar la reliquia.
Una signora curiosa (uncredited)
This adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of Fabrice Del Dongo (Grard Philipe) a young archibishop who gives his heart and soul to romance rather than to the Church creating upheaval in the lives of evergone around him the Countess of Sanseverine (Maria Casares) is but one of the may women who love him. In turn she incurs jealous retributions from those in high places who desire her. For his crimes Fabrice is thrown in Prison where from Crimes Fabrice is thrown in prison where form his lonely window he falls in love with his jailer s daughter and plans a daring escape she however calls his plan insane and takes a vow to the Virgin Mary to never see him again ever if his escape succeeds the Charterhouse of Parma explodes with conflicting desires man s desire form God vs. his desire for romance.
La baronessa
Leo (Vittorio De Sica) is young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of a big firm to accompany for one night the daughter of the firm's accountant, Titi (María Mercader). Leo pretends then to be the son of a tycoon, and takes her in a luxurious restaurant.
Una impiegata del banco del lotto
The owner of a lottery store refuses to pay a large sum won by one of his workers that he hates, because that man received the winning numbers in a dream.
La professoressa di geografica
Una joven que estudia en una academia de secretarias hace prácticas redactando cartas que dirige a un destinatario imaginario que supuestamente vive en Roma. Un día, por puro entretenimiento, se pone a escribir una carta de amor y, por pura casualidad, esa carta es enviada por correo y llega a manos de alguien que, movido por la curiosidad, decide conocer a la remitente.
Father Lebonnard, a former watchmaker who made a fortune, remains simple while his wife is only dreaming of worldly affairs and pushes his son Freddy to marry Bianca, the daughter of the Marquis de Rocafort, their neighbor. She feeds a similar project for her daughter Mariella.
a guest
Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here played by American actor Phillips Holmes. Paying but scant attention the facts, the film concentrates on Bellini's colorful love life. Evidently the film went through several rewriting processes, as witness the curious performances of Donald Calthrop and Arthur Margetson, whose characters do complete about-faces halfway through the story. Amidst so many British accents, Martha Eggerth's Polish intonations seem out of place, but she photographs beautifully and sings quite well. Casta Diva was attractively filmed on location in Naples.
Not to be confused with the 1954 remake (by Gallone himself) or to the English language version "The Divine Spark" (also directed by Gallone and starred by Eggerth).