The Secret Lover
1941 Italian film
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| Directed by | Carmine Gallone |
| Written by | Gherardo Gherardi |
| Produced by | Federico Curloni Carmine Gallone |
| Starring | Alida Valli Fosco Giachetti Vivi Gioi Osvaldo Valenti |
| Cinematography | Václav Vích |
| Music by | Felice Montagnini |
Production company | Grandi Film |
| Distributed by | ICI |
Release date | 27 September 1941 |
Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
The Secret Lover (Italian: L'amante segreta) is a 1941 Italian drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti and Vivi Gioi.[1] It was made at Cinecittà in Rome.
Plot
After her tutor embezzles and squanders her inheritance, a young woman is forced to seek work in a series of different occupations.
Cast
- Alida Valli as Renata Croci
- Fosco Giachetti as Giorgio Amholt
- Vivi Gioi as Diana Ponzio
- Osvaldo Valenti as Valentini
- Luigi Almirante as Il pittore Riganti
- Camillo Pilotto as Giacomo Mori
- Ada Dondini as Antonia Mori
- Bella Starace Sainati as La contessa Bianca Lotti
- Anita Farra as Teresa Amholt
- Luigi Pavese as Melchiorri
- Carlo Lombardi as L'attore Mario Fulvi
- Arturo Bragaglia as Il ragionere
- Jacchi Gambino as Krick
- Claudio Ermelli as Il cameriere Ottaviano
- Giuseppe Pierozzi as Marini
- Luigi Erminio D'Olivo as Il barone
- Marina Doge as Un'amica di Renata
- Fedele Gentile as Un amico di Renata
- Mario Giannini as Un amico di Renata
- Mara Landi as Un'amica di Renata
- Alfredo Martinelli as Un cliente dell'albergo
- Edda Soligo as La cameriera dell'albergo
- Alfredo Varelli as Un amico di Renata
- Giuseppe Varni as Il portiere dell'albergo
References
- ^ Nowell-Smith, Hay & Volpi p.57
Bibliography
- Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell, 1996.
External links
- The Secret Lover at IMDb
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Films directed by Carmine Gallone
- Il bacio di Cirano (1913)
- The Naked Truth (1914)
- Senza colpa! (1915)
- Flower of Evil (1915)
- The Wedding March (1915)
- Sotto le tombe (1915)
- Avatar (1916)
- La falena (1916)
- Malombra (1917)
- The Thirteenth Man (1917)
- La storia di un peccato (1918)
- Redemption (1919)
- A Doll Wife (1919)
- The Sea of Naples (1919)
- On with the Motley (1920)
- The Faces of Love (1924)
- The Fiery Cavalcade (1925)
- The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
- The City of a Thousand Delights (1927)
- Pawns of Passion (1928)
- Land Without Women (1929)
- Ship in Distress (1929)
- The Singing City (1930)
- City of Song (1931)
- My Cousin from Warsaw (1931)
- A Son from America (1932)
- Sailor's Song (1932)
- Going Gay (1933)
- My Heart Calls You (1934)
- Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1934)
- My Heart Is Calling You (1934)
- My Heart is Calling (1935)
- Casta Diva (1935)
- If It Were Not for Music (1935)
- The Divine Spark (1935)
- Thank You, Madame (1936)
- Mother Song (1937)
- Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
- Marionette (1939)
- The Dream of Butterfly (1939)
- Eternal Melodies (1940)
- Love Me, Alfredo! (1940)
- Manon Lescaut (1940)
- Beyond Love (1940)
- The Secret Lover (1941)
- First Love (1941)
- The Two Orphans (1942)
- The Queen of Navarre (1942)
- Odessa in Flames (1942)
- Harlem (1943)
- Sad Loves (1943)
- The Song of Life (1945)
- Before Him All Rome Trembled (1946)
- The Lady of the Camellias (1947)
- The Legend of Faust (1949)
- The Force of Destiny (1950)
- Night Taxi (1950)
- Messalina (1951)
- We're Dancing on the Rainbow (1952)
- Fatal Desire (1953)
- Puccini (1953)
- Madame Butterfly (1954)
- House of Ricordi (1954)
- Casta Diva (1954)
- Mata Hari's Daughter (1954)
- Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)
- Michel Strogoff (1956)
- Tosca (1956)
- Carthage in Flames (1960)
- Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)
- Carmen di Trastevere (1962)
- La monaca di Monza (1962)
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