The Secret Lover
| The Secret Lover | |
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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 |
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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.
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