Lina Marengo
Nascimento : 1911-01-18, Rome, Italy
Morte : 1987-02-06
No Século 18, a atriz Camilla viaja pela América do Sul como a estrela principal de uma companhia de teatro e se envolve com três homens. Uma das principais obras na filmografia do cineasta.
la vecchia della locanda
Very stylish Italian swashbuckler - The Three Musketeers from the viewpoint of Milady de Winter
Serafina
Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with one another and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom.
In a castle, some actors are guests of a duke. It happens that a precious chastity belt, family heritage, disappears by a thief.
Una signora curiosa (uncredited)
Parma, 1815. A duquesa de Sanseverina vive uma paixão devoradora mas não correspondida por seu sobrinho Fabrice. Considerado traidor por ter apoiado Napoleão, Fabrice é obrigado a entrar para o seminário para escapar às perseguições. Depois de matar um homem em legítima defesa, novamente deve fugir...
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
A young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters addressed to an imaginary recipient from Vienna. One day, the love letter the woman writes to this non-existent man is accidentally sent by one of her students –and falls into the hands of a real person.
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).