First Assistant Director
Gianna Maria Canale as the Duchess who is offered a banquet and requests for a hard-boiled egg. The stingy Spanish lord, who used his last gunpowder to fire a salute to the noble lady and thus has no more when a bunch of pirates, led by Nadir, launches an attack against his castle. Nadir is the dashing fiery hero.
First Assistant Director
Lina Cavalieri, una bellísima muchacha italiana de dieciséis años, reemplaza a su madre, enferma, en el escenario de un ruidoso teatrillo de Roma. Entre el público está el príncipe ruso Sergio Bariatine, que protege a la joven de un grosero espectador. Cuando su madre muere, Lina cuenta con la ayuda del príncipe, que se convierte para ella en el hombre ideal, pero inalcanzable. Lina, que tiene un extraordinario talento para el canto, inicia su carrera de la mano del maestro Doria, que la lleva a París para hacerla debutar.
Assistant Director
Dennis O'Keefe plays a GI who falls in love with Mara Lane in postwar Rome. Lane kills her boss, forcing her to flee the law. O'Keefe goes along for the ride so that he won't be knocked off by Lane's husband. Just when it looks as though O'Keefe is willing to go to any lengths to protect the woman he loves, he discovers that she frankly isn't worth it.
