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Love Story (1942 film)

1942 film

Summary

1942 film

Field	Value
name	Love Story
image	Storiadamore.jpg
caption	Still with Assia Noris and Guido Notari
director	Mario Camerini
producer	Giampaolo Bigazzi
based_on	Life Begins by Mary McDougal Axelson
writer	Mario Camerini
Gaspare Cataldo
Giulio Morelli
Mario Pannunzio
Gino Visentini
starring	Assia Noris
Piero Lulli
Carlo Campanini
music	Fernando Previtali
cinematography	Arturo Gallea
editing	Mario Camerini
studio	Lux Film
distributor	Lux Film
released
runtime	88 minutes
country	Italy
language	Italian

Gaspare Cataldo Giulio Morelli Mario Pannunzio Gino Visentini Piero Lulli Carlo Campanini

Love Story (Italian: Una storia d'amore) is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Assia Noris, Piero Lulli and Carlo Campanini. It is based on the play Life Begins by Mary McDougal Axelson, previously adapted into a 1932 film of the same title and a 1939 film A Child Is Born. Along with A Pistol Shot it marked an attempt to showcase Noris as a dramatic actress, rather than the White Telephone comedies she had become known for. It was screened at the 1942 Venice Film Festival.

It was produced by Lux Film, one of the leading film companies of Fascist Italy. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gastone Medin and Gino Brosio. The future star Marcello Mastroianni appeared briefly as an uncredited extra.

Plot

A young woman with a troubled past marries a worker from a mechanical engineering factory and tries to live a respectable life. However a man who knows her background attempts to blackmail her and loses her head and kills him. She is sentenced to ten years in prison, and gives birth to a child while in jail.

Cast

Assia Noris as Anna Roberti
Piero Lulli as Gianni Castelli
Carlo Campanini as Agostino
Guido Notari as Ferreri
Osvaldo Genazzani as Sandro
Emilio Cigoli as L'avvocato difensore
Emma Baron as L'infermiera della clinica
Antonio Battistella as Enrico Banducci
Giorgio Capecchi as L'aiuto chirurgo
Dhia Cristiani as Clara
Olinto Cristina as Il presidente del tribunale
Gualtiero De Angelis as Il poliziotto di notte
Luigi Giovarella as Il professor Venturi
Augusto Marcacci as L'avvocato dell'accusa
Marcello Mastroianni as Extra
Carlo Micheluzzi as Bibi - il padre ansioso
Egisto Olivieri as Il primo agente della questura
Amina Pirani Maggi as La padrona della Pensione Gallini
Vanna Polverosi as La madre dei due gemelli
Luisa Ventura as La padrona della pasticceria
Ciro Berardi as l'usciere dell'officina SIMA

References

Bibliography

Aprà, Adriano. The Fabulous Thirties: Italian cinema 1929-1944. Electa International, 1979.
Dewey, Donald. Marcello Mastroianni: His Life and Art. Carol Publishing Group, 1993.

References

"The Complete Index To World Film: Love Story". CITWF.com.
Aprà p.82

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